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FOLKLIFE RESOURCES IN NEW JERSEY 


Compiled by 


Peter T. Bartis 

n 

David S. Cohen 
Gregory Dowd 


The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress 
Washington, D.C. 


New Jersey Historical Commission, Department of State 
Trenton, N.J. 


1985 


Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data 


&R no 

Hs B>3i 


Bartis, Peter. 

Folklife resources in New Jersey. 

Includes index. 

1. Folklore—Archival resources—New Jersey. 

2. Folklore—Library resources—New Jersey. 3. New Jersey 
—Social life and customs—Archival resources—New Jersey. 
4. New Jersey—Social life and customs—Library resources 
—New Jersey. 5. New Jersey—History—Societies, etc.— 
Directories. 6. New Jersey—Museums—Directories. 

I. Cohen, David Steven, 1943- . II. Dowd, Gregory, 

1956- . III. Title. 

GR110.N5B37 1985 398\025’749 84-24158 



New Jersey 
Historical 
Commission, 
Department 
of State 





INTRODUCTION 


Folklife Resources in New Jersey reports the findings of a questionnaire survey begun 
in 1981 as a cooperative project of the American Folklife Center and the New Jersey 
Historical Commission. It is one of a series of resource surveys initiated by the Center to 
assemble a broad spectrum of information for citizens and cultural agencies engaged in 
the study, preservation, and presentation of traditional culture. 

The project sought to discover and identify New Jersey folklife materials in New 
Jersey institutions. Not within the scope of this survey are private collections, New 
Jersey collections in out-of-state institutions, and collections in New Jersey representing 
life and tradition outside the state. However, there are notable collections outside the 
state, such as Herbert Halpert's collection of Pine Barrens folktales and folksongs in the 
Indiana University Archives of Traditional Music; the New Jersey wildfowl decoy 
collection in Vermont's Shelburne Museum; and the folksong collections and 
documentation from the 1983-84 Pinelands Folklife Project in the Archive of Folk Culture 
of the American Folklife Center. 

We gathered information with a questionnaire developed by the American Folklife 
Center and tailored to the special needs and characteristics of New Jersey by the staff of 
the Historical Commission. An accompanying cover letter described the American 
Folklife Center and the New Jersey Historical Commission's Folklife Program. It also 
explained the project and provided the following definition of folklife adapted from Public 
Law 94-201, which created the American Folklife Center: 

"American folklife" means the traditional expressive culture 
shared within the various groups in the United States: familial, 
ethnic, occupational, religious, regional. Expressive culture includes a 
wide range of creative and symbolic forms such as customs, belief, 
technical skill, language, literature, art, architecture, music, play, 
dance, drama, ritual, pagentry, and handicraft. 

Folk or "traditional" expressions are not learned through the mass 
media and they stand apart from the fine arts. Generally they are 
learned orally, by imitation, or in performance. 

The format of the base questionnaire was encouraged by the Center, which recognizes 
the need to work closely with agencies familiar with regional culture and to produce 




















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uniform reports so that researchers may readily locate and compare folklife resources 
from state to state. Similar surveys have been previously conducted in Arizona, New 
York, and Rhode Island. One distinctive feature of the New Jersey questionnaire was the 
frequent use of local examples to illuminate categories. For example, the category 
’’traditional watercraft and related equipment” was illustrated by ’’sneakboxes, garveys, 
dugouts, riggings.” The questionnaire was divided into the following categories: 

1. Traditional artifacts 

a. Folk architecture (such as Dutch farmhouses, pattern brickwork houses, 
barns, outbuildings, and shanties) 

b. Traditional furnishings (such as country furniture, baskets, handmade toys, 
food utensils, redware, stoneware, and Native-American pottery) 

c. Homespun clothing, traditional ornaments, and grooming articles 

d. Traditional watercraft and related equipment (such as sneakboxes, garveys, 
dugouts, rigging)—model and full size 

e. Agricultural equipment (such as plows, scythes, and siths) 

f. Tools and implements pertaining to traditional occupations (such as 
shipwrights’ and blacksmiths’ tools) 

g. Hunting, trapping, fishings and clamming equipment 

h. Religious items, structures, shrines, and secular symbolic artifacts (such as 
icons, amulets, and charms) 

i. Musical instruments 

j. Artistic and decorative items 

1. Textiles and needlework (quilts, samplers, coverlets, embroidery, etc.) 

2. Folk paintings and graphics (by itinerant and/or untutored artists) 

3. Folk sculpture and carvings (whittling, scrimshaw, decoys, etc.) 

4. Ethnic arts 

5. Other 

2. Folk songs, folk music, and folk dance (unpublished collections only) 

a. Folksongs (such as ballads, worksongs, children’s songs, ethnic songs, 
religious and sacred music) 

b. Traditional instrumental music (such as collections of fiddle tunes and 
ethnic music) 

c. Regional and ethnic dance 

3. Verbal arts (unpublished collections only) 


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a. Tales, legends, myths, place name stories, monologues and toasts, jokes, 
and humorous anecdotes 

b. Personal experience narratives and oral histories 

c. Other verbal arts such as collections of proverbs, riddles, poetic recitations 
and folk speech (regional expressions and local language) 

4. Traditional customs and beliefs (unpublished collections only) 

a. Regional and ethnic folk medicine (herbal, magical, and other traditional 
practices) 

b. Religious, community, or town customs, festivals, historic activities, and 
other traditions (such as saints’ and name day celebrations, blessings of the 
fleet, bake-offs, homecomings, market days) 

c. Old sayings, beliefs, and practices about birth, life, death, health, and 
weather 

d. Unusual and supernatural experiences and beliefs 

5. Traditional games and play activities of adults and children (unpublished 

collections only) 

6. Other materials relating to regional, occupational, and ethnic life in New 

Jersey 

a. Diaries, personal memoirs, farm journals, logs, ships’ orders, household and 
business inventories 

b. Unpublished collections of recipes for food and health-related preparations 

c. Newspaper clippings, magazines, and periodicals of regional interest 

d. Prints, photographs, and other fine art works depicting ethnic, regional, or 
occupational traditions 

e. Theses, dissertations, research papers, and lectures of special interest 

The Folklife Center and the Historical Commission developed a mailing list of 402 
organizations, using such sources as Historical Organizations in New Jersey: A Directory , 
compiled by Mary Alice Quigley, Judith A. Fullerton, and Diane E. Kauffman (Trenton: 
New Jersey Historical Commission and League of Historical Societies of New Jersey, 
1983), Ethnic Directory of New Jersey , compiled by Zora Kipel (Union City, N.J.: William 
H. Wise, 1978), and the membership lists of the Museums Council of New Jersey. 

Recipients were encouraged to include as much information as possible. We clarified 
or expanded many returns with telephone calls. In addition, calls to selected 
nonresponding institutions assured us that no important collections were omitted. In a few 
exceptional cases a researcher visited an institution whose collections were unusually 
large or when the task of responding was cumbersome. Many institutions returned 
pamphlets and brochures, which were used in writing the entries. As a result of these 
techniques we had a much higher rate of return than is usual in passive mail surveys. This 
survey report contains 172 entries; institutions not listed either did not respond or had no 
relevant holdings. 




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Gregory Dowd contributed significantly to the final compilation and preparation of 
entries, while serving as a graduate student intern from Princeton University. Jamie 
Griffin, a student from Douglass College, Kathleen Condon, Doris Craig, Sebastian 
LoCurto, and Brett Topping of the American Folklife Center, and Mary Murrin and Lee 
Parks of the New Jersey Historical Commission assisted during various phases. Howard 
Green, Research Director at the Commission, supplied helpful advice, and Judith Morello 
typed the manuscript. 

We updated the information in this directory during the summer of 1984. Although we 
are providing the most up-to-date information possible, we encourage readers to check 
hours of operation prior to visiting. We have done our best to include all appropriate 
organizations, and we are especially grateful to the many staffers, volunteers, librarians, 
archivists, and other colleagues whose willing completion of the questionnaire made this 
report as informative as it is. 

David S. Cohen Peter T. Bartis 

New Jersey Historical Commission American Folklife Center 



RESOURCES 


1 

Abram Demaree Homestead 

Old Hook and Schraalenburgh Roads 
Closter 07624 
(201) 385-7309 

Open the first Sunday of the month from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 

This red sandstone, Dutch structure was built in two stages: the west wing before 1769 
and the main house in 1809. On the grounds is a clapboard barn, built in 1825. Most of the 
furnishings are Victorian. During the spring and fall, the Abram Demaree Homestead 
Society celebrates Americana Day. 


2 

Allentown and Upper-Freehold Historical Society 

76 North Main Street 
P.O. Box 328 
Allentown 08501 
(609) 259-7502 

The society’s office is open on the last Monday of each month, except July and August. 
The society operates a museum on the third floor of the public library, open Tuesday 
through Saturday during library hours, which vary. 

The society’s most extensive effort in recent years has been to establish a collection 
of slides and prints of 226 historic houses. It also maintains a grist mill, which once 
belonged to the town’s namesake, Nathan Allen, and the old Episcopal cemetery, the 
stones of which the society has cataloged. The society has a number of locally 
manufactured rush- and cane-bottomed chairs from the late nineteenth century, when 
Allentown was a major chairmaking center. 

In the fall, the society conducts tours; in the spring it celebrates a strawberry festival. 
















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Two window displays—one on the history of lighting devices and the other on the 
chairmakers of Allentown—have recently been produced by the society. 


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American Labor Museum 

Botto House National Landmark 
83 Norwood Street 
Haledon 07508 
(201) 595-7953 

The office is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The museum is open 
Wednesday through Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. 

Located in the home of the Pietro Botto family, the site of rallies during the 1913 
Paterson Silk Strike, the museum specializes in the culture of work, with a special focus 
on Paterson. Haledon is a streetcar suburb with large Italian, German, and Frisian 
populations, and these ethnic groups are reflected in the museum’s collection. 

The Botto House has a bocci court and a traditional Italian garden, including a grape 
arbor. The museum collection includes handmade garden tools, ethnic cooking utensils, 
hatmaking tools, winemaking equipment, and equipment used for food processing and 
preserving. The museum also has silk quilts made by women mill workers, handcrafted 
trousseau articles brought from Europe, and a landscape of the Alps region in Italy painted 
from memory by a member of the Botto family. There is also a collection of photographs 
of May Day outings, workers’ picnics, ethnic association meetings, bocci and card playing, 
company sporting events, work in the Paterson silk industry, and crafts, such as 
shoemaking. The museum has a collection of family recipes representing the diverse 
ethnic groups in Paterson’s workforce and three oral histories tape-recorded in 1983, 
containing remembrances and songs about the 1913 strike. 

The American Labor Museum has produced two major exhibitions—"For Bread and 
Butter: The 1913 Paterson Silk Strike” (1982) and "Life and Times in Silk City" (1984). It 
also published A Slice of the Earth: The Story of the American Labor Museum (1982). 


4 

Archaelogical Research Center 

Seton Hall University Museum 
South Orange 07079 
(201) 761-9543 

Exhibition area open Monday through Saturday from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.; research center 
open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and by appointment 

Located on the campus of Seton Hall University (Humanities Building), the center has 
a collection of Lenape and prehistoric Indian artifacts excavated from archeological sites 
in New Jersey. The collection includes measured drawings of prehistoric Indian house 
patterns, a model of a Delaware Indian Big House made by Reuben Wilson of Dewey, 
Oklahoma, a six-foot fragment of a historic-period dugout canoe, and several petroglyphs 
(carved figures on rocks). Within its collection of prehistoric implements and tools are 
hoes, millstones, pestles, pottery sherds, reconstructed pottery vessels, projectile points, 
and net sinkers. Religious artifacts include effigy faces on pendants, on ceramic pots, on 






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cobblestones, and on tobacco pipes, as well as grave offerings dating from prehistoric to 
early historic times. The center has copies of some 120 archeological reports, 
monographs, and cultural resource surveys prepared by the center and a library of 
archeological and ethnographic publications pertaining to the Indians of New Jersey and 
surrounding states. 

The center has sponsored two major conferences—the "Delaware Indian Symposium," 
held in 1972, the proceedings of which were published in A Delaware Indian Symposium , 
Herbert C. Kraft, ed. (Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 
1974), and "Lenape Indians: Retrospect and Prospect," held in 1981, the proceedings of 
which are in press. 


5 

Amey’s Mount Preservation Society 

RD 1, Box 528 
Juliustown-Mt. Holly Road 
Columbus 08022 
(609) 261-3415 

No regular schedule. 

The society seeks to preserve the historic beauty of the Arney’s Mount area and the 
local structures built of native stone. Although the society is not a repository as such, it 
has access to an early banked farmhouse and a Quaker meeting house, which is listed on 
the National Register of Historic Places. These two structures were built of fieldstone in 
the eighteenth century. Nearby are other colonial houses made of sandstone taken from 
the mount. 


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Atlantic County Historical Society 

907 Shore Road 
P.O. Box 301 
Somers Point 08244 
(609) 927-5218 

Open Wednesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon, and from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. 
Closed holidays. 

Although the society’s holdings emphasize Atlantic County and southern New Jersey, 
they also include items from northern New Jersey. 

Atlantic County’s maritime traditions are reflected in the society’s collection of ship 
models. These include ten half-models of local sailing craft, nine full-rigged models of 
Colonial and Early National period vessels, and several miniature models of ships that 
plied the Great Egg Harbor River. Photographs and sketches of ships, houses, and other 
Atlantic County structures can also be found in the collection. The society’s other 
maritime possessions include a scrimshaw powder horn, a full-sized pond box, shipwright’s 
tools, glass floats, net sinkers, Indian fishing hooks, a harpoon, and a violin made from a 
lobster claw. The society also owns a zither harp, a dulcimer, a melodeon, and an 
accordion. 

The society possesses many examples of traditional textiles and needlework, including 



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homespun blankets, embroidered bookmarks, patchwork and applique quilts, a jacquard 
coverlet, and twenty-seven samplers. 

Miscellaneous artifacts, such as scythes, a wooden hay fork, a carved apple dryer, folk 
paintings, and children’s games and toys, are also reported by the society. 

Among the society’s unpublished materials are manuscript accounts of local legends 
and letters referring to lovefeasts, camp meetings, and other ceremonies. Diaries and 
ships’ logs are contained in the collection, most notably the log book of the Francis Helen , 
which includes descriptions of fiddling and dancing by the officers and crew. 


7 

Barclay Farmstead 

820 Mercer Street 
Cherry Hill 08002 
(609) 795-6225 

Open Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., and by appointment. 

This Quaker farmstead occupies a 32-acre site in the heart of Cherry Hill; 8 acres are 
under cultivation. The farm has a kitchen garden, a Federal brick farmhouse, a spring 
house, a corn crib, and a blacksmith shop. The farmhouse has country furniture in the 
kitchen and open-hearth cooking implements. Agricultural equipment includes a wooden 
moldboard plow, rakes, harrows, scythes, and a cradle. The farm also has a complete 
collection of butchering equipment, a complete blacksmith tool collection, and carpentry 
tools. 


8 

Barnegat Historical Society 
P.O. Box 381 
Barnegat 08005 
(609) 698-1483 

Open Friday and Saturday from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. between the second week in June and the 
second week in September. 

The society owns two saltbox houses, a barbershop, a butcher shop, a corn crib, and an 
outhouse. Its collection includes Quaker clothing, a Barnegat friendship quilt 1840-1850, a 
sampler, a sneakbox model, farming tools, glassmaking tools, clam rakes, oyster baskets, 
stick-up decoys, and a folk painting of the Quaker meeting house in Barnegat. The society 
also owns sea-captain log books and photographs of seafaring life, rescue boats, old 
houses, and local stores. In 1981 the society published Out of the Past - A Pictorial 
History of Barnegat, New Jersey . 





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Barnegat Light Historical Society 
5th & Boulevard 
Barnegat Light 08006 
No telephone 

Located in what was once a one-room schoolhouse, the museum has fishing and 
clamming equipment and a collection of photographs depicting Barnegat’s lighthouse and 
life saving stations. The society cultivates a seashore garden on the museum grounds and 
participates in the annual blessing of the fleet. 


10 

Batsto Village State Historic Site 
RD 4 

Hammonton 08037 
(609) 561-3262 

Open from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., except Christmas, New Years, and Thanksgiving. 

The site of an old New Jersey iron furnace, Batsto Village features New Jersey white 
cedar houses, reconstructed craft shops of weavers, candle-makers, wood-carvers, chair- 
makers, potters, and blacksmiths, an eighteenth-century ore boat, southern New Jersey 
glass, and a reconstructed eighteenth-century grist mill. The museum has a manuscript 
collection. 


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Belleville Historical Society 
Belleville Public Library 
221 Washington Avenue 
Belleville 07109 
(201) 759-9200 

Open in the winter on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., and on 
Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Open in the summer from 9 a.m. 
to 9 p.m. on Monday, and from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Closed 
Sundays. 

The one item of interest to folklorists is an unpublished manuscript, Richard Shafter’s 
"A History of Belleville" c. 1940, which contains a chapter on Belleville folklore. The 
library owns abridgements of the work. 


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Bergen Community Museum of Art and Science 

Ridgewood and Fairview Avenues 
Paramus 07562 
(201) 265-1248 

Open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. 
The museum possesses a collection of Native-American artifacts. 


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Bergen County Historical Society 
1209 Main Street, P.O. Box 55 
River Edge 07661 
(201) 487-1739 

Open Wednesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon, and from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Open 
Sunday from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. 

The society’s collection of books and manuscripts is kept at the Johnson Public 
Library, 274 Main Street, Hackensack, which is open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. 
to 8 p.m., and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

The society’s collection of artifacts is kept in the Steuben House, a gambrel-roofed 
sandstone structure, which is owned by the state of New Jersey. Also on the grounds are 
the late nineteenth-century Westervlet Barn, the Demarest House, and the Campbell- 
Christie House. 

The artifacts on display are primarily of local manufacture and use. Included among 
the period furnishings are: a kas made of cherry wood c. 1775 attributed to Matthew 
Egerton of New Brunswick, a Hackensack Valley cupboard with reeded borders, typical of 
local cabinetwork, signed ’’Auryansen,” numerous locally made chairs with distinctive urn 
finials, including a child’s high chair, and an oak settle c. 1750 with a tall back that opens 
up into a closet for curing meat. Examples of local pottery include a collection of slip¬ 
decorated pie dishes made in River Edge by George Wolfkiel (1805-1867). The society's 
collection of antique dolls and toys includes a wax doll c. 1700 named Betsy, which was 
sent c. 1765 to the family of Dr. John Redmond Coxe of Trenton by their grandmother in 
England. 

The society's textile collection contains antique clothing, pictorial coverlets produced 
by local weavers using the jacquard mechanism, and local quilts, including several 
friendship quilts, a storybook applique quilt dated 1880, an applique quilt made by Betsy 
Haring in 1859, and a Centennial quilt with medallion-like images of George and Martha 
Washington. 

The society also reports an Indian dug-out canoe unearthed in Hackensack in 1868, a 
hand-painted sign with a portrait of Thomas Jefferson dated 1802 from John A. Hopper's 
Tavern, two anonymous folk portraits, one of Gretje Ackerman Westerman c. 1810 and the 
other of Johanna B. Romaine c. 1860, and an 1830 watercolor of ’’Goddess Flora” by 
Margaret Van Wagoner Demarest. The society also owns four carved Dutch spoon boards, 
a painted document box, metalwork, needlework, and accessories of everyday life in 
earlier times. 


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Bergen County Office of Cultural and Historic Affairs 

355 Main Street, Room 101 
Hackensack 07601 
(201) 646-2882 

Open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. 

The office holds both manuscript and photographic materials from two surveys that it 
has completed, one of historic sites and the other of stone houses. It maintains files 
relating to cultural resources, including ethnic and historic topics. A published guide to 
historic sites is also available. 


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Bergenfield Free Public Library 

50 West Clinton Avenue 
Bergenfield 07621 
(201) 384-2765 

Open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., and Saturday (except July and August) 
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

The library reported the following items: a booklet of old-time tales printed in 1934 
for Bergenfield's fortieth anniversary, oral histories tape-recorded in 1963, and an account 
book of the Cooper chair factory from the spring 1864. 


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Bergenfield Museum Society 
South Summit Street and Palisade Avenue 
Bergenfield 07621 
(201) 395-4599 

By appointment only. 

The emphasis of this collection is on Cooper and Hackensack chairs from the 
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Complementing these chairs are a wooden needle 
used in making rush seats and a manuscript lecture on Cooper chairs. 

The society also owns G. Wolfkiel slipware, strawberry baskets c. 1830, a wooden rake, 
carpenter's tools, lace, samplers, embroidery, and quilts. The society has access to a 
rooster weathervane cut from sheet metal. 


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Blauvelt-Demarest Foundation 

Hiram Blauvelt Wildlife Museum 
637 Kinderkamack Road 
Oradell 07649 
(201) 262-1354 

Museum open Thursday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and by appointment. 

Although the foundation concentrates primarily on wildlife preservation, it also owns a 
collection of items of interest to folklorists. The Demarest House was built c. 1678. It is 
furnished with local artifacts from the late seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth 
centuries. Of particular interest are the pewter items, the several folk portraits from the 
1820s, a pallet for picking dried flowers, a cookie mold, and one of the oldest dated chairs 
in New Jersey. The foundation also owns and maintains the Old French Cemetery located 
in New Milford. 


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Bordentown Historical Society 
P.O. Box 182 
Bordentown 08505 
(609) 298-1740 

Open Tuesday through Thursday from 10 a.m. to noon, and from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Open 
Friday from 12:30 p.m. to 4 p.m; Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m; and Sunday from 1 p.m. 
to 3 p.m. 

The society owns the furnishings of the Gilder House, a typical English yeoman’s house 
built c. 1740. The Gilder House itself is owned by the city of Bordentown. 

The society has a collection of folk furniture, including a Ware chair on loan from 
Luciene Lejambre, a New Jersey chest on frame made in Crosswicks, an eighteenth- 
century ladderback armchair with a corn-husk seat, a ladderback chair with sausage 
turnings, and New Jersey fanback Windsor chairs. They also report a fireback from the 
Atsion Furnace. 

The society’s textile collection includes two samplers made by Ann Poinsett of 
Bordentown, a sampler by Sarah Burtis, another by Sarah Aaronsons, and a fifth by Hester 
Schuyler of Bordentown, several woven coverlets, and a friendship quilt known as the 
Fahrenstock quilt. The society also has two pastoral paintings by Susan Waters, a self- 
taught Quaker artist. 

The society's library has one oral history interview, the business records of a 
pharmacist, a book of weather conditions in the nineteenth century, the log book of a 
yacht captain, and old photographs of boat building, fire companies, parades, local 
architecture, and a nineteenth-century carriage-maker's workshop. 


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Boxwood Hall: Historic House Museum 

1073 East Jersey Street 
Elizabeth 07201 
(201) 648-4540 

Open Wednesday through Friday from 9 a.m. to noon, and 1 to 6 p.m. Open Saturday from 
10 a.m. to noon, and from 1 to 6 p.m.; and Sunday from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. 

A National Historic Landmark maintained by the state of New Jersey, Boxwood Hall 
has fine furnishings from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Besides the 
three portraits by an itinerant artist from the 1820s, the museum owns patchwork and 
applique quilts, coverlets, and a sampler. 


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Brookdale Community College 
Lincroft 07738 
(201) 842-1900 

Open Monday through Thursday from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., and Friday and Saturday from 8 
a.m. to 8 p.m. Closed Sunday. 

The college has assembled a set of six audio-visual learning packages for architecture 
students. These slides and cassette tapes display and describe six historic buildings still 
standing in Monmouth County: the Allen House, Clinton’s Headquarters, the Conover Farm 
c. 1732, the Holmes-Hendrickson House, Marlpit Hall, and the Spy House. 


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Buccleuch Mansion 

George Street and College Avenue 
Buccleuch Park 
New Brunswick 08901 

Mailing Address: 

Louise Miller 
25 Shelly Drive 
Somerset 08873 
(201) 846-1063 
(201) 745-5094 

Open Saturday and Sunday from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., between the last Sunday in May and the 
last Sunday in October. Out of season visits and tours by appointment. 

A modified Georgian structure built in 1739, and a state and national historical site, 
Buccleuch Mansion shelters a collection of textiles, paintings, and furnishings by local 
New Brunswick artisans and artists. 

The curators of the mansion report a textile collection, including patched, signature, 


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and Victorian crazy quilts, trapunto, blue-and-white overshot coverlets, and handmade 
lace. There is also a craft room containing spinning wheels, carders, and pleaters. 

The sixteen-room mansion is fully furnished; many of the items were made by New 
Brunswick craftsmen. Among these are a table with Matthew Egerton, Jr.’s label, a tall 
mahogany clock case attributed to Egerton with clock works by the silversmith Peter 
Leupp, and other pieces by Oliver Parsell and Enos Woodruff. 

Within the mansion are folk paintings from the Hatfield Smith Collection, including 
three pastel portraits, possibly by Micah Williams, one portrait by Henry Sanderson, and a 
number of portraits by unknown artists. The mansion also owns a hand-painted banner 
depicting Noah’s ark with words in Hebrew, which is on loan to the Jewish Museum in New 
York City. 

Miscellaneous artifacts include a few carpenter’s tools, two zithers, and a hair wreath. 


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Burlington County Cultural and Heritage Commission 

The Mansion at Smithville 
Smithville Jacksonville Road 
Mount Holly 08060 
(609) 261-5068 

Mailing Address: 

c/o 49 Rancocas Road 
Mount Holly 08060 

Office open Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mansion tour and museum 
open Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Sunday from noon to 4 p.m., April through 
November. 

The commission is located at the Smithville historic site, a factory village featuring 
Victorian artifacts, formal gardens, and exhibits. The collection includes foundry and 
surveying tools, old photographs of local scenes, three high-wheeled, Star bicycles made 
at Smithville, and records of the H. B. Smith Machine Company, which produced 
woodworking machinery. 


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Burlington County Historical Society 

457 High Street 
Burlington 08016 
(609) 386-4773 

Open Wednesday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., and Sunday from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Delia Biddle 
Pugh Library also open Thursday and Friday from 10 a.m. to noon. 

Although the society specializes in genealogical research, it has a large, uncataloged 
manuscript collection. Descriptions of Pinelands customs can be found in the diary c. 
1880-c. 1910 of Grace Moore, a Burlington County school teacher who worked in the Pine 
Barrens. The society also owns handwritten cookbooks, one of which contains remedies for 
various ailments. 


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The society has slipware and earthenware, a photograph of shad fishermen at work, 
samplers, and a Burlington County quilt collection, which includes pieced, applique, 
presentation, and everyday quilts. 


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Califon Historical Society 
P.O. Box 374 
Califon 07830 
(201) 832-7138 

Open by appointment. 

The society owns stoneware as well as the wooden sign of the town’s first post office. 
The society has tape-recorded oral histories. It has sponsored a number of exhibits, 
including one on the Califon Basket Company from 1889 to the present. 


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Camden County Cultural and Heritage Commission 

Hopkins House 

250 Park Drive 

Haddon Township 08108 

(609) 858-0067 

Open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Closed weekends and holidays. 

The commission, a county governmental agency, has a collection of manuscripts. 
Among these are the Mickle family papers—2,000 pages of unpublished but indexed 
documents which cover 300 years of family history and contain information about Camden 
County traditions. 


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Camden County Historical Society 
Park Boulevard and Euclid Avenue 
Camden 08103 
(609) 964-3333 

Visiting hours: Sunday from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., and Monday through Thursday from 12:30 
p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Office hours: Monday through Thursday from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. 
Group tours by appointment. 

Pomona Hall was the home of a prominent Quaker family of the Delaware Valley. It 
was built in 1726 by Joseph Cooper, Jr., with an addition in 1788 by Marmaduke Cooper. 
An example of eighteenth-century residential architecture in the simplified Georgian 
style, its furnishings are primarily of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. 

Exhibits include the tools of early hand crafts displayed in shops (blacksmith, 
carpenter, candle-maker, cobbler, cooper, and weaver), early American glass, lighting 


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devices, fire-fighting equipment, toys, eighteenth-and nineteenth-century military and 
industrial artifacts of southern New Jersey, ethnic exhibits, and changing exhibitions. 

The library contains approximately 19,000 books and pamphlets, as well as maps, 
deeds, slides, photographs, and genealogical material relating to Camden County and New 
Jersey. Newspapers of this geographic area dating from 1800 to 1947 are also preserved. 


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Canal Society of New Jersey 
MacCulloch Hall 
P.O. Box 737 
Morristown 07960 
(201) 233-9752 

Open daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., April 15 through December 30. Closed for occasional 
special events held in Waterloo Village. 

The museum of the Canal Society is housed at Waterloo Village in Stanhope, New 
Jersey. The society maintains a collection of artifacts from New Jersey canal sites, as 
well as photographs, paintings, and models of canals and canal boats. The society publishes 
the journal The Tow-Path Finder . 


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Cape May County Historical and Genealogical Society 

DN 707 Route 9 

Cape May Court House 08210 

(609) 465-3535 

The museum is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., April through mid- 
June, and from mid-September through December; also open on Monday from mid-June 
through mid-September. The library is open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 
Closed major holidays. 

The society is located in the John Holmes House, a Federal period farmhouse and barn. 
The bedroom and kitchen contain colonial furniture and open-hearth cooking implements, 
including redware pottery. The society possesses a variety of tools from the salt marsh- 
hay, cedar-shingle, mining, shipbuilding, and whaling industries. They also have a 
collection of forty locally-made duck decoys and two sneakboxes. They have Native 
American artifacts, quilts, samplers, coverlets, some scrimshaw, a dulcimer, violins, 
flutes, and a concertina. Their manuscript collection includes diaries, account books, 
ledgers, and ship’s logs. They also have a collection of tintypes, daguerreotypes, 
stereopticons, and photographs of shipbuilding, shingle mining, and other subjects. 



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Cedar Grove Historical Society 

Cedar Grove Public Library 
Cedar Grove 07009 
(201) 239-5171 

Collection available by appointment only. 

The collection of the Cedar Grove Historical Society includes traditional furnishings, 
agricultural and harness-making tools from the nineteenth century, and a file documenting 
local lore and history. The society offers a slide show of old homes and interiors. Two of 
these homes are national historic sites: the Jacobus House and the Personett House. Both 
are brown sandstone structures. The latter has a large fireplace with a separate Dutch 
oven; it has been restored and refurnished. A booklet on Cedar Grove’s history is available 
through the society. 


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Chester Historical Society 
P.O. Box 376 
Chester 07930 
(201) 879-7740 

The museum was open for the Bicentennial and closed in 1978. 

Although the museum is closed, the society still works to photograph and preserve 
Chester’s 250 colonial, early American, and Victorian buildings, four of which are on the 
National Register of Historic Places. The society also has tape-recorded oral histories. 
The collection is in storage at the Williamson School in Chester, New Jersey. 


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Clinton Historical Museum Village 

56 Main Street 
Box 5005 
Clinton 08809 
(201) 735-4101 

Open Monday through Friday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday from noon to 
6 p.m., April through October. During the rest of the year, only the antique shop and 
offices are open. 

This reconstructed and restored museum village is an interpretation of rural, 
northwestern New Jersey life in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. 
It sponsors a concert series, craft day, and harvest jubilee. 

The main museum, a water-powered mill built in 1763, has four floors of exhibits. 
These include a Lenape Indian scene, an eighteenth-century kitchen, a milk room, the 
shops of a cooper, a cobbler, and a carpenter, and the milling operation itself. Among 
other structures in the village are a complete blacksmith shop, a nineteenth-century stone 
crusher, and lime kilns. The village also displays early lighting devices and implements 
used in spinning, weaving, and logging. 


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Collingswood-Newton Historical Society 

c/o Collingswood Public Library 
Haddon and Frazer Avenues 
Collingswood 08108 
(609) 858-0649 

The public library is open Monday through Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m., and 
Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., September through mid-June. Closed Saturdays during 
the summer. 

Although the society does not have its own office, parts of its collections are on 
permanent display in the New Jersey room of the library. Among these items are portraits 
by the intinerant painter Raphael Senseman, local pottery, and examples of southern New 
Jersey glass. Both the library and the society are working together to assemble a 
collection of local historical materials. One such file contains pictures of the town’s 
fiftieth anniversary, of its fireman’s parades, and of other festivals. In one tape-recorded 
interview a local resident describes a visit by the Jersey Devil. 


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Colonial Burlington Foundation, Inc. 

213 Wood Street and 214 High Street 
Burlington 08016 
(609) 386-0733 

Open by appointment. 

The foundation has custody of the Revell House, built in 1685. The foundation 
maintains an extensive boxwood herb garden on the Revell House grounds. 


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The Craig House 

Monmouth Battlefield State Park 

RD #1 

Freehold 07728 
(201) 462-9616 

Open on Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to noon and from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. 

The Craig House is a Colonial New Jersey farmhouse and barn in a natural setting. 
The house is not fully furnished, but reports hand tools and cooking implements. It is a 
state-owned historic site. 


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Cranbury Historical and Preservation Society 

4 Park Place 
Cranbury 08512 
(609) 655-3736 

Open Saturday and Sunday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. 

Located in a house built in 1834, the museum is furnished with items primarily from 
the nineteenth century. On permanent exhibit are collections of agricultural, leather¬ 
working, and blacksmith’s tools. The museum also has Native American artifacts found 
near Cranbury, bottles from J.S. Silver Bros. & Co., and approximately fifteen personal 
narratives and oral histories. The society annually exhibits dolls, quilts, glassware, etc., 
all of which are loaned by local residents or are from the museum collection. 


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Culver Brook Restoration Foundation 

P.O. Box 447, Broad Street 
Branchville 07826 
(201) 948-6662 

The museum is open spring through fall at various hours; contact the foundation for 
details. The foundation is open Wednesday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. 

The foundation maintains a completely furnished blacksmith and wheelwright’s shop c. 
1895, which includes a wagon made by a local wheelwright. It also possesses a log cabin c. 
1790, an oral history collection, and two unpublished local histories—one of a farm and 
horse show and the other of a floating religious service held on Culver’s Lake. 


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Cumberland County Historical Society 

P.O. Box 16 

Greenwich 08323 

(609)455-4055 

(609)451-8454 

Open Tuesday through Saturday from noon to 4 p.m., and Sunday from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. 
April 1 through mid-December. Closed Sunday during July, August, November, and 
December. 

The society owns the Gibbon House, a London-style town house with Flemish bond 
brickwork, and a Swedish log cabin built in 1650 as a granary. They also own two wood- 
frame barns in town. Their collection of furnishings includes a room full of Ware chairs, 
artifacts from the Ware family, a 1730 kitchen with a beehive oven, redware, stoneware, 
and some baskets. Their textile collection includes homespun blankets, linen sheets, quilts, 
coverlets, and samplers, including some made by young girls. Their craft room has 
spinning wheels and looms used in teaching demonstrations for school children. They also 
have toys, dolls, a melodeon, and a cylinder music box. 


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In one of the barns is a collection of horse-drawn farm equipment, including plows, 
cultivators, and planters. They also possess marsh horseshoes from the salt-hay industry, 
scythes, a wooden rake, and a horse-drawn sleigh. The tool collection includes those of 
shipbuilders, carpenters, basket-makers, and blacksmiths. There is also a collection of 
southern New Jersey glass and glass-making tools. The society has the John DuBois 
Maritime Collection, a full-size batteau, a railbird boat with poles, and the ship’s 
figurehead from a 1797 wreck. 

Their library has daybooks, diaries, wills, inventories, and photographs of vehicles, 
factories, homes, and oyster boats. 


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Delaware Watergap National Recreation Area 

Bushkill, Pennsylvania 18324 
(717) 588-8637 

Headquarters open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:40 p.m. 

Although the headquarters are in Pennsylvania, many of the items of interest to 
folklorists are found on the New Jersey side of the Delaware River, particularly in the 
historic village of Millbrook. Demonstrations by contemporary craftsmen at work are 
given in Millbrook, Peter’s Valley, and Slateford Farm in July and August. These include 
weaving, slate cutting, blacksmithing, and pottery making. During the first weekend in 
October, Millbrook is the setting for thirty or more such demonstrations. The recreation 
area also maintains over one hundred historic houses, including six Dutch farmhouses from 
the eighteenth century. 


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Deserted Village at Allaire, Inc. 

Allaire State Park 
Post Office 
Farmingdale 07727 
(201) 938-2253 

Open April 15 to September 15. 

A nineteenth-century reconstructed ironworks, the village holds a variety of 
nineteenth-century tools and machines, including some early iron plows. Among the 
household goods which furnish the village are baskets, quilts, New Jersey country 
furniture, and a redware and stoneware collection. A church from the early Free Church 
Movement still stands. The village manages a farm market, celebrates J.P. Alan Day, and 
sponsors demonstrations in blacksmithing, tinsmithing, and country woodworking. 


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The Dey Mansion 

199 Totowa Road 
Wayne 07470 
(201) 696-1776 

Open Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday from 10 
a.m. to 4 p.m. Closed Christmas, New Years, and Thanksgiving. 

The Dey Mansion is a Georgian house built c. 1740. It was Washington’s headquarters 
twice during the Revolutionary War. The museum also has a reconstructed barn made of 
old materials and a two-room plantation house. 

The furnishings include a Hackensack cupboard, a Dutch-American kas, a Bergen 
County ladderback chair, and a William and Mary bannister back chair. There are also 
open-hearth kitchen utensils and treen-ware. In addition, the museum reports an 
eighteenth-century loom, quilts, samplers, coverlets, and homespun clothing. They also 
have a German fraktur dated 1772 from Bucks County, Pennsylvania. 

Their manuscripts include a nineteenth-century inventory of a Bergen County 
blacksmith and a Bible from the Dey family. 


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Durand-Hedden House and Garden Association, Inc. 

523 Ridgewood Road 
Maplewood 07040 
(201) 763-7712 

Open the third Sunday of the month from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., September through June. 
Tours by appointment. 

Founded in 1980, the association manages the historic Durand-Hedden House and 
grounds, including a large herb garden. The house is currently being restored and reflects 
three periods of its history: the 1790s, 1850s, and 1930s. It is named after its original late 
eighteenth-century owner, Obadiah Hedden, and the owner from 1812-1846, Henry 
Durand, brother of the famed painter/engraver, Asher B. Durand. 

The association offers guided living-history tours, demonstrations of open-hearth 
cooking, musical performances, and a wide variety of eighteenth-nineteenth-and 
twentieth-century arts and crafts. 


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Eagleswood Historical Society 

c/o Mrs. Stella Wegst 
Route 9 

West Creek 08092 
(609) 296-2703 

The society meets on the third Tuesday of each month at the West Creek Methodist 
Church. 


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In conjunction with the local public schools, the society gives regular demonstrations 
on southern New Jersey, maritime New Jersey, and the Lenape Indians. The society has 
published an Eagleswood guide book. Most of the items reported are in private collections 
to which the society has access. 

The society reports that several southern New Jersey salt box houses survive from the 
1740s, while there are church buildings and cemeteries from the late eighteenth and early 
nineteenth centuries. The oldest structure in the town is a house built in 1704 by Jarvus 
Pharo. 

The society also has access to equipment used in the oyster, clam, fish, cranberry, salt 
hay industries, as well as in the coastal trade. The society owns duck decoys and whittled 
pieces, and has access to others in private hands. Textiles to which the society has access 
include quilts, handloomed rugs, and tatting. 

The society is in the process of collecting local myths and legends. 


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East Brunswick Historical Society 
P.O. Box 12 
East Brunswick 08816 
(201) 254-8964 

Open by appointment. 

The society owns tape recordings of oral histories by elderly East Brunswick Township 
residents. It sponsored the first and second annual village fairs which have been the scene 
of whittling, wood-carving, and quilting displays. Indian artifacts and other items on loan 
from neighboring collections have also been exhibited. The society’s book and artifact 
collections are housed in the East Brunswick Museum Corporation. 


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East Jersey Olde Towne 
P.O. Box 661 
Piscataway 08854 
(201) 463-9077 

Regular hours not yet established. 

East Jersey Olde Towne represents what an eighteenth-century village would have 
been like in the Raritan Valley. Seventeen of the twenty buildings are in place; they 
include a schoolhouse, a doctor’s office, three farmhouses, a blacksmith’s shop, a 
wheelwright’s shop, Dutch and English barns, and a tavern. 


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Eatontown Museum 

75 Broad Street 
Eatontown 07724 
(201) 542-4026 

Open Wednesday from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., and Sunday from noon to 3 p.m. 

Established in 1979, this collection includes stoneware, a rope bed, paintings by local 
artists, an unidentified painting on slate, and three quilts c. 1900. The museum has access 
to a Colonial Georgian house, a Dutch farmhouse c. 1830, and many other dwellings from 
the nineteenth century. 


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Ehrengart Museum 

Sparta Public Library 
22 Woodport Road 
Sparta 07871 
(201) 729-3101 

The library is open Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Tuesday from 
9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The 
museum is open when library staff is available. 

The museum holds some 700 museum pieces. Among those of interest to the folklorist 
are the household artifacts, which include samplers, coverlets, baskets, handmade toys, 
food utensils, redware, stoneware, and Native American pottery. The museum owns many 
hunting pieces, notably some early Indian bows, arrows, and spears, as well as Euro- 
American rifles, bullet-making molds, powder horns, and flasks. Among other occupational 
items are agricultural equipment, and blacksmith’s, carpenter’s, and locksmith’s tools. One 
exhibit displays sheep’s wool, spinning wheels, and a jacquard coverlet c. 1841. The 
museum reported a number of folk sculptures, including a wooden Indian, as well as a doll 
collection and some bottle puzzles. 

The museum publishes a monthly newsletter. 


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The Ferry House 

Washington Crossing Park 
RR #1, Box 337 
Titusville 08560 
(609) 737-2515 

Open Wednesday through Sunday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Memorial Day through Labor Day. 

The Ferry House is a mid-eighteenth century farmhouse with a stone barn and garden. 
It contains period furniture, open-hearth kitchen utensils, a coverlet, baskets, and 
ceramics. The park has a replica of a flatbottom ferry boat. The visitors’ center contains 
the H. Kels Swan Collection of Revolutionary War artifacts, which includes manuscripts, 


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folk paintings, and a firearm collection, including hand-carved gun stocks. The Ferry 
House is a state-owned historic site. 


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Fort Lee Historic Park 

Hudson Terrace 
Fort Lee 07024 
(201)461-3956 

Open Wednesday through Sunday from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., March through December, and 
by appointment. 

The fort, which George Washington ordered built in 1776, is now a historic park which 
focuses on the life of the continental soldier. Although it is not a folklife repository as 
such, it does shelter a collection of artifacts from the eighteenth century and audiovisual 
displays. The park regularly provides living-history programs for students. 


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Fosterfields Living History Farm 

Rt. 24 and Kahdena Road 
Morristown 07960 

Mailing Address: 

Morris County Park Commission 
P.O. Box 1295 R 
Morristown 07960 
(201) 285-6687 
(201) 876-3106 

Open Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and holidays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday from 1 
p.m. to 5 p.m., May through the end of October. 

Between 1880 and 1900, the Fosterfield Farm kept abreast of the latest agricultural 
innovations. The 200-acre farm is being restored to its late nineteenth-century condition 
and will present a living record of the period’s advanced agricultural techniques. Although 
many of the items displayed were manufactured commercially, the Living History Farm 
does possess a number of folk items, such as ladderback chairs, Shaker furnishings, and 
Wallace Nutting’s furniture. Handpainted images of grape garlands decorate the walls of 
the dining room in the Gothic Revival country home on the property. 


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Franklin Mineral Museum, Inc. 

76 Evans Street 
Franklin 07419 
(201) 827-3481 

Open Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Sunday from 12:30 p.m. to 4:30 
p.m., April 15 through June 30, and September 1 through November 15. During July and 
August, open Wednesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 

The museum specializes in mining equipment and photographs of mining operations 
dating from the late nineteenth century. The collection of local zinc mining implements 
and lighting devices from candles to electric units is of special interest. It contains a 
large exhibit of minerals that glow under ultra-violet lighting, including pictures made 
with phosphorescent mineral granules by amateur mineral collectors. A portion of the 
museum building is a replica of a mine engine house, which contains a life-sized 
representation of a local mine passage. The guides are retired miners. The museum 
sponsors an annual Old Timers’ Day for retired miners, as well as lectures, concerts, and 
other community events. 


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Franklin Township Historical Society 
84 Hillview Avenue 
Franklin Park 08823 
(201) 297-2641 

Open by appointment. 

The society reports a tape-recorded oral history collection focusing on the experiences 
of local citizens from 1890 to 1940. The society has published a history of Franklin 
Township: Where the Trees Grow Tall . 


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Garretson Forge and Farm Restoration 
4-02 River Road 
Fair Lawn 07410 
(201) 797-1775 

Open Sunday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., February through mid-June, and mid-September 
through November. Special tours by appointment. 

The restoration consists of a gambrel-roofed, red sandstone, Dutch-American 
farmhouse, a barn, a carpenter’s shop, a carriage house, and a forge on 2 acres of property 
owned by Bergen County. The farmhouse has a jambless fireplace and beehive oven. 

Furnishings include a Hudson Valley Dutch kas c. 1780, a Hudson Valley Queen Anne 
chair with a rush seat, ladderback chairs with Bergen finials, a Windsor chair, and a 
carpenter’s sample chair. The restoration also reports a hand-blown bottle c. 1790. The 
carriage house contains a manure spreader, a lumber hauler, a farm wagon, and a milk 



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wagon. The tool collection includes carpenter’s tools, scythes, a flail, a grinding wheel, 
and wool wheel. 

Clothing items from the Garretson family include bonnets, a christening dress, and a 
wedding dress. Quilts, a linsey-woolsey coverlet dated 1837, a child’s wooden toy, and 
family papers, including a farm journal and old photographs of the Garretson farm and 
family also form part of the collections. 

A St. Nicholas Day celebration is held annually on the first weekend in December. 


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Glen Ridge Historical Society 
Glen Ridge Congregational Church 
195 Ridgewood Avenue 
Glen Ridge 07028 
(201) 744-0322 

Open by appointment. 

The society reports a collection of some 1,200 house photographs taken between 1890 
and 1917. Over one-half of the town's 2,000 structures are listed on the New Jersey 
Register of Historic Places, and every building in the town has its own file and photograph 
in the museum. Among the folk art items are two samplers from the late eighteenth and 
early nineteenth centuries and two anonymous oil paintings from the late nineteenth 
century. The society also owns a number of tape-recorded oral histories. 


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Gloucester County Historical Society 

58 North Broad Street 
P.O. Box 409 
Woodbury 08096 
(609) 845-4771 

Open Wednesday and Friday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. and from September through May, the 
last Sunday of the month from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. 

The museum's Hunter-Lawrence House was built in 1765. Within the eighteen-room 
house is a reconstructed Colonial kitchen furnished with baskets, redware, stoneware, and 
other food utensils. A fireplace from a tavern in Gloucester, in front of which Betsy Ross 
was reportedly married, is the focal point of the kitchen. The society also owns a 
Moravian church built in 1786. 

The society has many collections, including farming implements, Indian artifacts, 
weapons from the Revolution and Civil War, furniture, clocks, and a shoemaker’s tool set 
complete with lathe, bench, and forms. Also displayed are hunting implements, late 
nineteenth-century children’s games, toys, paper dolls, southern New Jersey glass, quilts, 
handmade Christmas ornaments, and Victorian furnishings. 


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Greate Egg Harbor Township Historical Society 

Township of Egg Harbor 
R.D. 1, Box 262 
Linwood 08221 
No telephone 

Open Thursday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. 

The society owns a number of traditional artifacts, including American Indian pottery 
shards and projectile points, clay marbles, and southern New Jersey glass. 


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Greater Cumberland County Multi-Ethnic 

Heritage Studies Center 
Cumberland County College 
P.O. Box 517 
Vineland 08360 
(609) 691-8600, ext. 4 

Open by appointment. 

The center reports about 400 tape recordings of immigrants relating their experiences. 
The center also sponsors ethnic festivals. 


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Haddon Heights Historical Society Collection 

Haddon Heights Public Library 

608 Station Avenue 

Haddon Heights 08035 

(609) 547-7132 

Open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Open 
Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; closed Saturday during July and August. 

The collection includes photographs of parades, streets, and houses, and tape-recorded 
reminiscences of life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The society 
publishes a quarterly bulletin. 


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The Hancock House 

Hancock’s Bridge 08038 
(609) 935-4373 

Open Wednesday through Friday from 9 a.m. to noon, and from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturday 
from 10 a.m. to noon, and from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.; and Sunday from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. 


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Built in 1734, the Hancock House is a patterned brick farmhouse and the site of a 
Revolutionary War massacre of American militiamen by British soldiers. It is furnished 
with locally made furniture, including ladderback chairs. It also has kitchen implements, 
baskets, quilts, and coverlets. On the property is a Swedish, hewn-plank cabin, built in the 
1640s on the Tyler Tract in Salem, New Jersey. The Hancock House is a state-owned 
historic site. 


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Harrison Township Historical Society 

Old Town HaU 

P.O. Box 4 

Mullica Hill 08062 

(609) 478-4949 

Open for special exhibitions during the spring and fall. 

A significant portion of the society’s holdings relate to southern New Jersey Quaker 
culture. These include slides of Quaker sites, artifacts, meeting houses, and paintings. 
There are tape-recorded oral histories, at least four of which are in the plain speech of 
southern New Jersey Quakers and result from ”A Friendly Legacy,” an exhibit the society 
mounted in 1981. 

In 1979, the society sponsored another exhibit, ’’Design Down Jersey," which has also 
been photographed and cataloged. The materials from this exhibit reflect the staffs 
specialization in the decorative arts of southern New Jersey. In addition to a local 
architecture survey in manuscript form, the society has photographs of traditional 
southern New Jersey furnishings, duck decoys, and scrimshaw. Demonstrations of historic 
and contemporary crafts, are offered and the museum shop occasionally sells works by 
local, contemporary crafts people. 


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The Hermitage 

335 Franklin Turnpike 
Ho-Ho-Kus 07423 
(201) 445-8311 

Open to the public on Wednesdays and by appointment. 

Once a Georgian-style brownstone house, the Hermitage was converted to the 
American Gothic Revival style in 1845 by the architect William Ranlett. It has a toy 
collection and a decorative arts collection with items primarily from the nineteenth 
century. There is also a textile collection, consisting mainly of costumes, embroidery, 
lace, and quilts. 

The Hermitage reports an archival collection on the cultural, social, and industrial life 
of the nineteenth century. A cookbook reflecting four generations of cooks is among the 
items of interest. 


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Hightstown-East Windsor Historical Society 
164 North Main Street 
Hightstown 08520 
No telephone. 

Open on the first and third Sunday of each month, and by appointment; closed during 
January, February, July, and August. 

The society’s manuscript collection includes recipes, diaries, personal-experience 
narratives, and local legends. Among the traditional furnishings reported by the society 
are a stoneware jug, a wooden toy barn, and an eighteenth-century wooden mortar. The 
society owns a set of shoemaker’s tools and a wooden mallet made from the remnants of a 
wheel. The society’s decorative items include four quilts, one sampler, two embroidered 
pictures, two landscapes, and three charcoal portraits. 


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Hillside Historical Society 
111 Conant Street 
Hillside 07205 
(201) 352-9270 

The society has restored the Woodruff House, built in 1735, and a store added in 1900, 
which in the early decades of this century sold apples and cider from the Woodruff cider 
mill. The society operates a museum covering three centuries. The store features 
commercial products prior to 1920. 


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Historical Society of Berkeley Heights 

31 Horseshoe Road 
P.O. Box 237 
Berkeley Heights 07922 
(201) 464-0747 

Open from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., spring and fall Sunday. 

The society has recently restored an old farmstead, which it uses as its museum. A 
stone and brick spring house, built in 1870, has been restored. The society also owns a 
copy of Betsey Crane’s diary; the original is at the Alexander Library, Rutgers University. 
The diary records farm life and activities from 1824 to 1828. 


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Historical Society of High Bridge 
71 Main Street 
High Bridge 08829 
(201) 638-8186 

Open by appointment. 

The society is establishing a museum which will hold artifacts from the Taylor- 
Wharton Foundry. The society has gathered and filed prints and photographs of borough 
sites, homes, and residences, and is preparing a pictorial history of the borough. 


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Historical Society of Princeton 

Bainbridge House 
158 Nassau Street 
Princeton 08540 
(609) 921-6748 

The library is open Tuesday and Friday from noon to 4 p.m., or by appointment. The 
museum is open Tuesday through Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. 

The society’s headquarters is an eighteenth-century town house in downtown 
Princeton. Their furniture collection includes a Delaware Valley ladderback chair, a 
Hudson Valley kas, a campaign bed, and a New England ladderback chair with stencilled 
decorations. The society also reports baskets, redware, stoneware, and kitchen utensils in 
storage. 

They have a collection of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century clothing, quilts, and 
samplers. Their children’s collection includes handmade toys and dolls. They also have 
nineteenth-century physician’s equipment and two folk portraits. Their large collection of 
photographs includes images of Princeton’s black community and scenes of local 
agriculture. 


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Historical Society of the Rockaways 
P.O. Box 100 
Hibernia 07842 
(201) 627-2344 

Collection open by appointment. 

The society’s collection, displayed at the Rockaway Township Free Public Library, 
contains a Bicentennial quilt, a collection of photographs of local buildings, and tape- 
recorded and transcribed oral histories. The area’s mining industry is represented by a 
miner’s lamp, a miner’s boot, and a slide show on iron mining from the American 
Revolution to the present. 


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The Historical Society of Washington Township 

Box 320, RR #3 
Sewell 08080 
(609) 881-0009 

Library open by appointment only. 

The society has restored the township’s first post office built in 1864 and has partially 
restored an old railroad station. It is presently cooperating with the township in the 
restoration of an ironstone house built in 1779. The society’s library and collections are 
located in a private home, and include a signature coverlet from the 1920s, a day book 
from the late nineteenth century, and a series of architectural photographs. The society 
published Memories of Washington Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey , which 
contains local folktales and has sponsored courses in tatting (lacework). It holds an annual 
open house. 


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Holmdel Historical Society Museum and Headquarters 

64 Stilwell Road 

P.O. Box 282 

Holmdel 07733 

(201) 946-8618 

Open by appointment to groups and schools. 

The society’s museum and headquarters are located in the St. Catharine’s Roman 
Catholic Church, which is owned by the society. It reports a homespun woolen blanket 
dated 1850, a pair of handmade pillow cases dated 1851, homespun linen bed sheets dated 
1850, a handmade metal chain dated 1820, a wedding trousseaux dated 1857, promissory 
notes and receipts of farm purchases made in the mid-nineteenth century, and local 
recipes from the mid-nineteenth century. 


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The Hopewell Museum 

28 East Broad Street 
Hopewell 08525 
(609) 466-0103 

Open Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. 

The aim of the Hopewell Museum is to preserve and display what is most typical and 
interesting of village life in America from early Colonial days to the present. Located in a 
three-story Victorian brownstone, the museum has Colonial, Victorian, and Native 
American collections. It has baskets, redware, stoneware, country furniture and other 
artifacts from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Among the items in the 
collections are guns, powder horns, and scythes. The museum also has quilts, samplers, 
coverlets, and other needlework, as well as spinning wheels. At least two folk portraits 



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and four silhouettes decorate the walls of the museum's parlor. The museum recently 
received Dr. David B. Hill's collection of Indian relics and handicrafts; these are on 
display in the two-story addition, which was completed in 1967. 


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Howell Living Historical Farm 

Box 464A 
Titusville 08560 
(609) 737-3299 

Open by appointment 

Although most of the approximately 400 artifacts are early twentieth-century farm 
machinery, the architecture dates from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. 
Among the older structures are a wagon house dated 1850, a frame barn from the 1830s 
and 1840s, and a farmhouse built in 1790 and added to in 1820. There are both tape- 
recorded oral histories describing farming methods at the turn of the century and a 
collection of agricultural books published before 1810. 


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Hungarian Folklore Museum 

American Hungarian Folklore Centrum 
217 Third Street 

(201) 343-5240 and (201) 473-0013 

Open Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m., and on Friday from noon to 7 
p.m. 

Established by the American-Hungarian Folklore Centrum, this museum is dedicated to 
the preservation of the folk cultural heritage of Hungarian-Americans. The museum 
exhibits ceramics, textiles, and costumes from Hungary, provides resources for Hungarian 
dance groups, and sponsors workshops on embroidery, carving, and Easter-egg decorating. 
Other activities sponsored by the centrum include Hungarian folk dancing, demonstrations 
of Hungarian folk art, and recitals of Hungarian folklore. 


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Hunterdon County Historical Society 
114 Main Street 
Flemington 08822 
(201) 782-1091 

The library is open Thursday and Saturday from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., and by appointment. The 
museum is open by appointment. 

The society owns a Greek revival house built c. 1846. The basement kitchen contains 


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cooking utensils, a deacon’s bench, painted chairs, locally made peach baskets, a wool 
wheel, and heckles. In addition there is agricultural equipment, including a Deats plow and 
corn sheller on loan to the Clinton Museum. The society also owns traps, tinware, and 
stencilled burlap bags. Its textile collection includes homespun sheets, samplers, and 
quilts, including a friendship quilt made by the ladies of the Baptist church around the 
turn of the century. It also has nineteenth-century portraits by William Bonnell. The 
manuscript collection includes diaries, farm books, the account book of a shoemaker, 
recipes, medicinal cures, and photographs of local events, architecture, and street scenes, 
with an emphasis on the town of Flemington. 


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Indian King Tavern Museum 

233 King’s Highway East 
Haddonfield 08034 
(609) 429-6792 

Open Wednesday through Friday from 9 a.m. to noon, and from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday 
from 10 a.m. to noon, and from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m., and Sunday from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. 

The New Jersey legislature met in this public house several times during the 
Revolutionary War. It contains a completely furnished eighteenth-century kitchen and a 
local pottery collection. There are also a doll and toy collection and an early nineteenth- 
century tavern sign. They also possess photographs and lithographs of local scenes. The 
Indian King Tavern is a state-owned historic site. 


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The Israel Crane House 

Montclair Historical Society 
10 Orange Road 
Montclair 07042 
(201) 744-1796 

Open Sunday from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., and by appointment. Closed July and August. 

The Israel Crane house is completely furnished with artifacts, including quilts and a 
cobbler’s kit and bench, from the Early National period. The society has furnished a room 
on the third floor with original items from a nineteenth-century schoolroom, and has 
moved a country store with the original stock to the grounds. A small archive contains old 
books and photographs concerning New Jersey history. The society offers demonstrations 
and classes in rug-hooking, quilting, tin-stencilling, candlemaking, and open-hearth 
cooking. It has published works on colonial cooking. 


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Jewish Historical Society of Central Jersey 
1050 George Street, Box 1-L 
New Brunswick 08091 
(201) 247-0288 

Open by appointment. 

Dedicated to the documentation of Jewish history in central New Jersey, the society 
collects documents, manuscripts, and artifacts, tape records oral histories, and publishes 
short works. Among the papers in the society’s archives are the anonymous ’’Jewish 
Population Survey of New Brunswick” (1943); B.L. Aleshnick’s ’’Growth and Migrations of 
the Jewish Community of New Brunswick and Associated Patterns in Synagogue Location” 
(1979); M. Steinfeld’s ”An Examination of Factors Causing the Development of Temples in 
New Brunswick near the Turn of the Century” (1979); and R. Zassler’s "Jews in Colonial 
New Brunswick” (1976). The society possesses a brief review of a discussion at a Jewish 
home for the aged, which includes the residents’ recollections of how to avert the evil 
eye. It also owns some ceremonial items such as matzah and challah covers, tallit bags, 
and shofars . A hand-painted linen banner with a Noah’s ark theme, which appears to be an 
early twentieth-century logo for a Hebrew benevolent society of New Brunswick, is shared 
with Buccleuch Mansion. 


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John Abbott House 

2200 Kuser Road 
Trenton 08619 
(609) 585-1686 

Mailing Address: 

P.O. Box 1776 
Yardville 08620 

Open Saturday and Sunday, Noon to 5 p.m. 

The John Abbott House is operated by the Hamilton Township Historical Society. It is 
furnished with a sawbuck table and two corner cupboards, among other pieces. The tool 
collection includes a shingle shaver and a seed corn dryer. They also have a horse tether, a 
wooden wagon, a hand-carved wood sled, and a collection of horseshoes. 

The museum reports two spinning wheels as well as quilts and coverlets. Food 
preparation equipment includes two sets of grist wheels, a milk separator, and an apple- 
butter stirrer. They also have handblown bottles, Indian arrowheads from New Jersey and 
elsewhere in the United States, and doctors equipment from the 1840s. In their library are 
early engravings, wills and deeds, and the Dr. Charles Conrad Abbott collection of books 
about nature and archeology. There is an herb garden outside the house. 






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Kearny Museum 

318 Kearny Avenue 
Kearny 07032 
(201) 997-6911 

Open Wednesday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., and 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.; Thursday from 1 p.m. to 4 
p.m.; and Saturday from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., September through June. 

The Kearny Museum is actively engaged in collecting information about local ethnic 
organizations, including Irish, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, and Scottish groups. 
The museum conducts tours of its local history exhibits and it has published a number of 
pamphlets on Kearny’s history, as well as reprints of nineteenth century works. 


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Kenilworth Historical Society, Inc. 

567 Boulevard 
Kenilworth 07033 
(201) 276-9090 

Collection open by appointment. 

The Kenilworth Historical Society’s collection contains items relating to work culture 
in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Among these are approximately 
10,000 documents concerning the Rahway Valley Railroad from 1900 to 1938, including 
group photographs of Italian railroad workers. 

The society also has a bow saw, some spoke shaves, and photographs of local 
carpenters taken in 1898. Among the artistic and decorative items in the collection are a 
copper weathervane shaped in the image of a horse and an ornate, wooden, Greek 
Orthodox cross from the 1820s. The society sponsors lectures on Kenilworth history and 
provides young people with on-site archeological training. 


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Keyport Historical Society Museum 
P.O. Box 312 
Keyport 07735 
(201) 264-2102 

Open Sunday from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., June through September. 

In keeping with the town’s maritime traditions, the Keyport Historical Society keeps 
its collection in a building which was once the workshop and crew quarters for the 
Keansburg Steamboat Company. The museum has a permanent exhibit of items from the 
fishing and shipbuilding trades, which include metal baskets for shipping oysters and 
storing shucked oyster shells, rakes and baskets for clamming and oystering, a shipwright’s 
drafting table, and photographs of Keyport’s steamboats and oystermen. The society also 
has photographs of Salt Water Day, a bygone summer festival. Local legends, place-name 
stories, and humorous anecdotes can be heard on the society’s tape-recorded oral history 


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collection. 

The society owns traditional tools, including a scythe, some carpet beaters, and a 
small assortment of carriage-making, shoe-making, and carpentry tools. Decorative arts 
include six quilts, a small assortment of embroidery, and a portrait of a local resident. 

In addition, there is a representative collection of clothing from 1850 through the 
1920s, photographs of the Aeromarine Plane and Motor Company established in 1917, and 
artifacts from the Kearny Plantation built in 1717. 


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Kirby’s Mill Museum 

Medford Historical Society 
Church Road 
P.O. Box 362 
Medford 08055 
(609) 654-7767 

Open by appointment. 

The Medford Historical Society is restoring this three-and-a-half story wooden mill 
building c. 1830-1890 and its associated barn and blacksmith building. 

Among the items in the collection are blacksmith's tools, lumbersaws, ice-harvest 
tools, scythes, cradles, sickles, local cranberry sorters, fodder and root crop cutters, 
millstones and grain elevators, and horse and dog treadmills. The museum also has about 
five quilts, several wood-splint baskets attributed to Indian Anne, the last local Indian 
resident, and a local doctor's journal and day book c. 1820-1840. It has access to privately 
owned photographic collections of town, countryside, and occupational scenes. In early 
June the society sponsors a quilt show; its autumnal Apple Festival includes craft displays. 


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Lake Hopatcong Historical Society 
P.O. Box 668 
Landing 07850 
(201) 398-2616 

Open Wednesday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., March through November, and by appointment. 

The collection of the society includes equipment from the local ice and lumber 
industries, Indian artifacts, folk paintings, and a collection of prints and photographs 
relating to the history and life of the local area. Publications on the history of the area 
are available through the society. 


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Little Silver Historical Society 

480 Prospect Avenue 
Little Silver 07739 
(201) 842-2400 

Open Sunday and Wednesday from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.; closed February and March. 

The society exhibits its collections in the town’s old post office built c. 1890. It owns a 
collection of photographs, including some which depict the Parker family homestead built 
in the late seventeenth century, but long since destroyed. Other items include a 
blacksmith’s account books and business ledgers, the sign from Lovetts nursery, and the 
old sign of Little River’s railroad station. Three quilts—a signature quilt dated 1897, a 
prizewinning quilt dated 1913, and a Bicentennial quilt dated 1973—are also maintained by 
the society. It also possesses tape-recorded oral histories and a manuscript by Colonel 
Raymont Toustillolt entitled ’’Patriotic Observances.’’ In addition to educational programs 
for local schoolchildren, the society sponsors four different exhibits each year. 


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Livingston Historical Society 

Thomas Force House 

366 South Livingston Avenue 

P.O. Box 220 

Livingston 07093 

(201) 992-2998 

Open on the second and fourth Sunday of the month from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., April through 
June, and September through October, or by appointment. 

Built in 1745, this Dutch Colonial house shares the grounds with the Condi family 
cookhouse, which was erected in the late eighteenth century. The Livingston Historical 
Society maintains these structures and has furnished them with items dating from the 
Colonial period to 1830. In addition to furniture, the collection includes quilts, samplers, 
homespun blankets, clothing, family Bibles, and folk-paintings. A barn stores old farm 
implements and carpenter’s tools. 

The society reported that a number of items of interest to folkorists are stored in its 
archive in the Livingston Public Library’s Special Collections Department. These include 
tape-recorded oral histories, written memoirs, and a collection of old photographs of local 
structures. The society also maintains a display of Indian artifacts found along the Passaic 
River. It publishes a monthly newsletter and sponsors craft fairs. 


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Long Beach Island Historical Association 

Box 222 

Engleside and Beach Avenues 
Beach Haven 08008 
(609) 492-0700 

Open weekdays from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., and from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., June 23 through 
September 9; and Saturday from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., Memorial Day through Columbus Day. 

The society operates a museum in a Victorian, wood-shingled church. Its collection 
includes a Barnegat Bay sneakbox c. 1916, clam rakes, and garden and farm tools, in 
addition to quilts and one sampler. The decoy collection contains decorative decoys by 
William H. Cranmer of Spray Beach, as well as working decoys. 

The society has conducted oral history interviews with longtime residents, which 
include an account of the seaweed-harvesting industry and an interview with a pound 
fisherman of Norwegian descent. It has scrapbooks and photograph albums dealing with 
surf fishing, the seaweed industry, shipwrecks, and the Menhaden fish factory on Crab 
Island. It also owns diaries and the register of the Peahala Rod and Gun Club. 


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Long Branch Historical Museum 

1260 Ocean Avenue 
Long Branch 07740 
(201) 229-0600 

Open Thursday through Monday from 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., June 1 through Labor Day, or 
by appointment. 

Located in a late nineteenth-century Gothic structure that was built as a chapel, the 
Long Branch Historical Society reports that it possesses a horse-drawn sleigh, a plow, a 
cultivator, and other agricultural implements. 


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The Longstreet Farm 
Holmdel Park 
Longstreet Road 
Holmdel 07733 

Mailing Address: 

c/o Monmouth County Park System 
Newman Springs Road 
Lincroft 07738 
(201) 842-4000 

Open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Memorial Day through Labor Day, and from 10 a.m. to 4 
p.m. during the winter. 


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Situated on 9 acres, the Longstreet Farm is restored to its 1890s status. The living- 
history interpretation is complemented by nineteenth-century crops, livestock, gardens, 
artifacts, and processes. 

The farmstead reflects Dutch and English influences. The house was built in three 
sections: the first c. 1775, the second c. 1800, and third c. 1840. Other architectural 
features include an eighteenth-century Dutch barn, a carriage house c. 1880, and sixteen 
other buildings constructed at various times in the nineteenth century. 

The farmhouse contains locally made furniture. It has quilts, one sampler, and three 
portraits by Samuel Bell Waugh. The collection also includes late nineteenth-and early 
twentieth-century farm equipment and hand tools. Staff conducts blacksmithing and 
horse-powered agricultural equipment demonstrations and seasonal agricultural and 
domestic activities. 

The collections include oral history interviews about agricultural life in the Holmdel 
area, family papers of the Longstreet and Homes families, and old family photographs. 
The library contains a complete collection of U.S. Department of Agriculture Yearbooks 
dating from 1847 and several hundred parts manuals for farm equipment. There are also 
manuscripts, research notes, and reports on period clothing, nineteenth-century rural life, 
holiday celebrations, games, diet, farrier and blacksmith work, and the Walnford grist mill 
community. 


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Madison Historical Society 
P.O. Box 148 
Madison 07940 
(201) 377-3929 

The research files of the society are located in the Madison Public Library, which is open 
Monday, Tuesday and Thursday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Wednesday and Friday from 9 a.m. 
to 6 p.m.; Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Sunday from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. During the 
summer the library closes at 6 p.m. on Monday, and is closed all day Sunday. Otherwise, 
the summer hours are the same as those throughout the year. 

The society has placed in the public library about eight tape-recorded oral histories, 
newspaper clippings describing local festivals such as Memorial Day and Bottle Hill Day, 
and the estate inventory of Major Luke Miller, dated 1851. In storage are traditional 
furnishings, including chairs, a corner cupboard, dishes, a friendship quilt, two samplers, 
and two pieces of homespun cloth. The society also has in storage a spinning wheel, a 
long-handled collection box, and foot warmer stoves. 


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The Marshall House 
60 Bridge Street 
Lambertville 08530 
(609) 397-0770 

Open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., all year; open Saturday from 9 a.m. to 
5 p.m., during the summer. Groups by appointment. 

The Marshall House was the boyhood home of James Wilson Marshall, who discovered 


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gold in California in 1848. The brick house, owned by the state of New Jersey and 
maintained by the Lambertville Historical Society, was built in 1816 in the Federal style. 
The furnishings include rope beds, baskets, and rag rugs from the early nineteenth 
century. The house also has quilts, including an autographed album quilt, crocheted and 
embroidered pieces, and folk paintings and graphics. The society has collected business 
and farmers’ journals from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and has tape recorded 
several oral histories. It conducts house tours and sponsors dances, dinners, carnivals, and 
train rides. 


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Meadow lands Museum 

91 Crane Avenue 
Rutherford 07070 
(201) 935-1175 

Open every Monday and Wednesday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., and on the first and third 
Sunday of each month from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. 

Located in the Yereance Farmhouse, built in 1796, the Meadowlands Museum exhibits 
the implements used in the early home crafts: spinning, weaving, cooking, shoemaking, 
and candle making. The museum has homespun coverlets from the early nineteenth 
century, embroidery from the late nineteenth century, and quilts which range in date from 
1850 to 1930. Tape-recorded oral histories, collected during the New Jersey Tercentenary 
in 1964, are also stored at the museum. 


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Middlesex Public Library 

Mountain Avenue 
Middlesex 08846 
(201) 356-6602 

Open Monday through Thursday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and 
Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. During the academic year (September to June), the 
library is open on Sundays from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. 

The Middlesex Public Library has recently started an archive featuring videotapes of 
longtime residents discussing the past. 


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Millburn-Short Hills Historical Society 

Box 243 

Short Hills 07078 
(201) 376-3423 


Open by appointment only. 


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The society has collected photographs of local buildings of historical or architectural 
importance. A few have details that illustrate American folk design. Among the houses 
photographed in this collection are a Dutch farmhouse c. 1700, a New Jersey colonial 
house with an exposed fireplace back and eyebrow windows, and another colonial house 
with vertically sawed clapboard siding. 

The society also has old photographs of work in a local quarry, bicycle races, and 
holiday parades. It has tape recorded about twenty oral histories. Publications on local 
historical architecture are available through the society. 


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Miller-Cory House Museum 

614 Mountain Avenue 
Westfield 07090 
(201) 233-1776 

Open on Sundays from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., September 15 through June 15, and by 
appointment. 

The Miller-Cory Farmhouse, built in 1740, is surrounded by outbuildings including an 
outhouse, a cookhouse and a corncrib. The furnishings, include a loom, spinning equipment, 
cooking utensils, lighting fixtures, bedding, and furniture, which date primarily from 1740 
to 1820. The tool collection contains blacksmith’s and carpenter’s tools, as well as scythes 
and other farm equipment. Among the textiles are quilts, coverlets, and clothing. The 
museum’s goal is to provide an interpretation of farmlife between 1740 and 1810. To train 
its staff, it has produced a slide program showing traditional farm occupations. The 
museum sponsors a harvest festival in October and a sheep-to-shawl exhibition in May. 
Publications on Westfield architecture and early American cooking are available through 
the museum. 


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Millstone Historic Forge Association 
205 Ann Street 
Millstone 08876 
(201) 359-7221 

Open on Sunday from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., spring and fall. 

The Millstone Historic Forge Association maintains both a complete blacksmith’s shop 
with items from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries, and a complete 
wheelwright’s shop with items from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. All the 
equipment is on public display; much of it is demonstrated each week. 


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Monmouth Beach Historical Society 

22 Beach Road 
Monmouth Beach 07750 
(201) 229-3532 

The society’s hours vary. 

The society has no permanent artifact collection of its own, though it has access to 
local private collections. It is currently endeavoring to establish a museum in which to 
display these collections. It has collected tape-recorded oral histories and photographs of 
buildings, work, and recreation. A Bicentennial history of Monmouth Beach is available 
through the society. 


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The Monmouth County Historical Association 

70 Court Street 
Freehold 07728 
(201) 462-1466 

The Court Street museum is open on Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., 
and on Sunday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. 

The Allen House, located at the corner of Sycamore Avenue and Route 35 in Shrewsbury, 
and Marlpit Hall, 137 Kings Highway, Middletown, are open on Sunday, Tuesday and 
Thursday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., and on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., April through 
December. 

The Holmes-Hendrickson House on Longstreet Road, Holmdel, and the Covenhoven House, 
150 West Main Street, Freehold, are open on Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday from 1 p.m. 
to 4 p.m., and on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., June through October. 

The Library and Archives, located in the 70 Court Street building, are open to the public 
on Wednesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 

Monmouth County’s early ethnic diversity is reflected in the Dutch and English 
architecture of the four historic house museums maintained by the Monmouth County 
Historical Association: the Allen House built c. 1750, the Covenhoven House built in 1752- 
53, the Holmes-Hendrickson House built c. 1754, and Marlpit Hall built c. 1685 and 
enlarged in the 1740s. 

The total material culture holdings belonging to the association amount to some 20,000 
objects. The major emphasis is on traditional Monmouth County furnishings, especially 
furniture, ceramics, glass, silver, New Jersey stoneware, and assorted domestic food 
utensils. Among the textiles in the collections are homespuns, about one-hundred and 
thirty samplers, sixty-five quilts, ten coverlets, crewel work pockets, and pin cushions. 
The association owns textile equipment, chairmaker's tools, wooden plows, scythes and 
other traditional implements. 

A number of full-rigged sailing models from the late nineteenth century, two The 
dozen seascapes, one-hundred and fifty to three-hundred glass plate negatives of iceboats, 
photographs of clamming on the shore, twenty-five duck decoys, two carved polychrome 
steamboat lunettes, and ten pieces of scrimshaw help to convey the county’s martime 
history. 

Included in the association's collections are some four-hundred paintings, including 
twenty-two pastel portraits by Micah Williams and six local scenes by Henry T. Gulick, 


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various examples of fraktur, a cigar-store Indian, a whittled Hessian soldier whirligig, and 
approximately one-hundred and fifty French and German dolls. 

Besides artifacts, the association maintains a collection of local and regional history 
and genealogy materials, both primary and secondary sources. Included in the manuscript 
collections are some sixty diaries from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth 
centuries, many of which are written by women; the account books of silversmith Teunis 
Dubois; household and business inventories; folk medicine and food recipes; a WPA 
manuscript of place names in Monmouth County; and a variety of correspondence. 

The association also has a few cassette tape recordings of oral histories and a large 
photograph collection which portray country festivals, buildings, work and recreation in 
Monmouth County. 


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Monroe Township Historical Society 
Main and Library Streets 
Williamstown 08094 
No telephone 

By appointment only. 

The society has access to country furniture, stoneware and homespun clothing. It has 
tape-recorded oral histories, and it displays old newspaper clippings, magazines, and 
photographs of buildings and occupational traditions. 


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Montclair Art Museum 

3 South Mountain Avenue 
P.O. Box 1582 
Montclair 07042 
(201) 746-5555 

Open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday from 2 
p.m. to 5 p.m. 

The Montclair Art Museum has a collection of American Indian artifacts, mainly from 
the Great Plains, the Pacific Northwest, Southwest, West Coast and Eastern Woodlands. 
Their folk art collection includes—Old Hewitt Iron Furnace" by Ed Morgan, one of the 
Ramapo Mountain People, and three paintings by Henry Thomas Gulick, a farmer from 
Monmouth County: "Across the Hall" (1954), "Spring Landscape, View of Middletown and 
Sandy Hook" (1949), and "Will Ely's Sales and Exchange Stable" (1955). The museum has 
had two folk art exhibitions—"Henry Thomas Gulick: New Jersey’s Native Painter" (1974) 
and "Simple Pleasures" (1981). 


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Morris County Historical Society 

Acorn Hall 
68 Morris Avenue 
P.O. Box 170M 
Morristown 07960 
(201) 267-3465 

Open Thursday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., and Sunday from 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m., March 
through December. Also open by appointment. 

Maintained by the Morris County Historical Society, Acorn Hall is a restored Victorian 
home built in 1853. Its furnishings are mainly Victorian. Among the artifacts which would 
be of interest to the folklorist are handmade toys, five blue-and-white jacquard coverlets, 
a signed satin tumbling-block quilt, dated 1848, a log cabin quilt, and a collection of 
carpenter’s tools from the nineteenth century. The society’s collection of photographs 
includes 1,200 black and white prints and negatives of the Morristown Italian-American 
community. It has tape-recorded about thirty-five oral histories, and has in its manuscript 
collections diaries, letters, and business records, including the ledger books from four 
local stores operating in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. 


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Morris Museum of Arts and Sciences 
Normandy Heights and Columbia Roads 
Morristown 07960 

Mailing Address: 

P.O. Box 125 
Convent 07961 
(201) 538-0454 

Open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., 
September through June; Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., July through 
August. Closed on major holidays. 

The museum possesses Native American pottery, stone axes, projectile points, 
moccasins, a mortar and a grinding stone. Many models of Indian artifacts and dioramas of 
Indian scenes have been produced by the museum. For the student of the early Euro- 
American settlers, the museum displays such artifacts as redware, stoneware, a hair 
wreath, handmade dolls, toys, homespuns, quilts, coverlets, samplers, and lace. The 
museum has spinning wheels and spinning jennies, a saddler’s bench, carpenter’s tools, 
lace-making equipment, and farming implements. The museum also has some examples of 
New Jersey decoys and scrimshaw. One kit designed for the schools depicts the three 
stages of candle making, another is composed of a series of photographs of Dutch homes 
in the Montville area, and a third is a collection of reproductions of American folk art. 
Students of the ethnic folklife of New Jersey would be interested in the museum’s nine 
cassette recordings of oral histories by local immigrants. 


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Morristown National Historical Park 

Washington Place 
Morristown 07960 
(201) 539-2016 

Open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; closed Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years. 

Two historic houses, restored and furnished with artifacts from the eighteenth 
century, stand in the Morristown National Historical Park: the Wick House, built in 1750 
in a style reflecting its owner’s New England origins, and the Ford Mansion, Washington’s 
headquarters in the winter of 1779-80. 

Items in the park’s collection include fifty-one chairs, hundreds of wooden, cooper, 
iron, and brass food utensils, fifty-three pieces of redware, two pieces of stoneware, and 
twenty-eight homespun blankets, sheets, and pillowcases. The park also reports chests, 
cupboards, mirrors, racks, benches, tables, quilts, samplers, embroidered pictures, hanging 
shelves, and a few articles of homespun clothing. 

The historical park possesses such agricultural tools as a winnowing machine, a horse 
twitch, and an iron garden plow. The collection of craft tools includes a shoe last, forty- 
two carpenter’s tools, and fifty examples of spinning and weaving equipment. 

At the Wick House, the park regularly sponsors living history demonstrations of 
traditional cooking and other farm activities. This house has also been the site for 
occasional colonial craft days and colonial fairs. The latter have featured music, dancing, 
and games from the eighteenth century. 

The Eastern National Park and Monument Association, located at the Morristown 
National Historical Park, has published pamphlets and books; of interest to folklorists are 
Craftsmen of Colonial America , The Wick Farm and Garden , and The Wick House 
Furnishing Plan . 


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Mount Holly Historical Society 
P.O. Box 127 
Mount Holly 08060 
No telephone 

Collection open by appointment. 

The society is restoring both a log cabin, built in 1736, and the Thomas Budd House, 
erected in 1744. The society collects furnishings for the log cabin, as well as photographs, 
clothing, and other items of local historical interest. 


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Museum of Early Trades and Crafts 

Main Street and Green Village Road 
Madison 07940 
(201) 377-2982 

Open Monday through Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. 






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The museum’s purpose is to encourage a better understanding of life and work in early 
America, in the home, on the farm, and in the shop. This is accomplished through 
demonstrations of craftsmen working with traditional tools and reconstructions of the 
shops of tanners, sawyers, coopers, potters, harness-makers, carriage-makers, and other 
craftsmen. The museum possesses traditional tools and a collection of baskets. As many as 
sixty-two trades and dozens of crafts are represented. Seasonal crafts are portrayed at 
the corresponding time of year. The emphasis of the museum is on the transition from 
hand tools to simple machinery. 


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Neptune Historical Museum 

25 Neptune Boulevard 
Neptune 07753 
(201) 775-8241 

Open Tuesday and Friday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., and 2 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.; Thursday from 1 
p.m. to 6 p.m., and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Also open by appointment. 

Two influences on Neptune’s history are reflected in the museum’s collections through: 
costumes, baskets, projectile points, and other items manufactured by the Sand Hill 
Indians and hymnals and memorabilia from the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association. 

The museum also has equipment once used by hunters, fishermen, carpenters, 
blacksmiths, and farmers. Among the farmer’s implements is a new plow from the early 
nineteenth century. The museum also reports quilts, handmade toys, photographs, 
postcards, oil paintings, and pen and ink sketches. The museum has tape recorded about 
twenty-eight oral histories and has published interviews with local residents. 


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New Jersey Department of State 

Division of Archives and Records Management 
185 West State Street, CN 520 
Trenton 08625 
(609) 292-6260 

Archives Search Room open Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and 
Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

The division reports the WPA Ethnic Survey for New Jersey and blueprints, data 
sheets, and photographs from the Historic American Buildings Survey for New Jersey. In 
addition there are audio-tapes from the Smithsonian Institution’s 1983 Festival of 
American Folklife featuring New Jersey folk craftsmen (salt hay rope-makers, 
boatbuilders, oyster shuckers, decoy carvers), performers, celebrations, and ethnic groups 
(German, Japanese, Italian, Afro-American, and Galician). 


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New Jersey Folklore Society 
Box 747 

New Brunswick 08903 
No telephone 

The New Jersey Folklore Society was founded in 1945 and reorganized between 1979 
and 1980. It does not have a collection, but it publishes a newsletter and holds meetings on 
folklife topics. 


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New Jersey Historical Commission 
113 West State Street, CN 305 
Trenton 08625 
(609) 292-6062 

Open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

In 1979 the commission established a Folklife Program with a grant from the National 
Endowment for the Arts. The program has cosponsored conferences on the Lenape Indians 
(1981), Ukrainian-American folklife (1982), and Jewish-American folklife (1983). It 
mounted two exhibitions: "Ukrainian-Americans: An Ethnic Portrait,” for the New Jersey 
State Museum’s traveling exhibition service, and "Images of New Jersey Folklife", for the 
Smithsonian Institution’s 1983 Festival of American Folklife. It also coproduced two films 
with New Jersey Network: In the Barnegat Bay Tradition (1983) about sneakboxes and 
decoys made along the Jersey Shore and Schooners on the Bay (1984) about Delaware Bay 
oyster boats. 

The commission possesses the notes of James Lee, who interviewed people living and 
working on the Morris Canal, and transcripts of a pilot project about institutional folklore 
at the Jamesburg Training School for Boys, a juvenile corrections facility in Middlesex 
County. 

The commission also has an Oral History Program, which has transcribed interviews 
with former New Jersey politicians, and an Ethnic History Program, which has 1,500 tape- 
recorded interviews with immigrants and migrants to New Jersey. 

The commission publishes a monthly newsletter. Its folklife publications include 
Folklife in New Jersey: An Annotated Bibliography (1982) and Ukrainian-Americans: An 
Ethnic Portrait (1982). The Folklore and Folklife of New Jersey (New Brunswick: Rutgers 
University Press, 1983) was written as a commission project. 


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The New Jersey Historical Society 
230 Broadway 
Newark 07104 
(201) 483-3939 

The museum is open Monday through Saturday from noon to 4:15 p.m. The library is open 
Monday through Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. Appointments are advised for 
researchers interested in the manuscripts collection and the museum. 








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The museum has a folk art collection. Some examples include four pastels by Micah 
Williams, ’’The Johnston Mill” and "The Henry Fischer Homestead" by Charles Henry 
Fischer, and several anonymous folk portraits. Also featured are scrimshaw, wood 
engravings, duck decoys, and a large fish weathervane dated 1809. The museum owns some 
New Jersey fraktur, including an eight-page Burlington County fraktur done for the Styles 
family in the late eighteenth century. Among the textiles in the society's collections are 
some thirty samplers and an equal number of quilts, including a Burlington County 
friendship quilt c. 1830 with a poem inscribed around its edges. 

The museum’s collection includes two deacon’s benches and some salt-glazed 
stoneware. Examples of folk architecture can be found in the society’s extensive 
collection of architectural photographs and prints. The museum’s traditional craft displays 
include baker's, carpenter’s, sailmaker’s and cabinetmaker’s tools, as well as a loom and 
spinning wheels. Two dugouts, models of a Seabright skiff and a Barnegat Bay sneakbox, 
and the Yarnall Collection of photographs, models, and plans of New Jersey watercraft 
represent New Jersey's maritime communities. 

The library’s manuscript collection includes seven handwritten cookbooks, some of 
which contain herbal and other medicinal recipes. Diaries, ship’s logs, household 
inventories, farm journals, and other sources held by the society contain legends, myths, 
tales, and other records of New Jersey’s folklife. The library's printed collection includes 
extensive local history and family history materials. 

The society has sponsored programs on some of New Jersey’s ethnic groups, including 
Italians, Germans, and Afro-Americans. It publishes New Jersey History and a monthly 
newsletter. The society also has published many books, among them an illustrated survey 
of New Jersey's historic buildings, Pleasures of Colonial Cooking , and The Victorian 
Seaside Cookbook. 


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New Jersey Museum of Archaeology 

Drew University 

Madison 07940 

(201) 377-3000, ext. 305 

Open Saturday and Sunday from 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Closed holidays and during the 
summer. 

The New Jersey Museum of Archaeology specializes in excavated artifacts from the 
Middle East, but they possess some materials from New Jersey. These include the Budd- 
Jaquith Collection of Lenape Indian artifacts and some artifacts from Morristown Green. 


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New Jersey Indian Office 
300 Main Street, Suite 3F 
Orange 07050 
(201) 675-0694 

Open by appointment. 

The office has copies of historical documents, books, maps, tribal rolls, genealogies, 
and old pictures of New Jersey Indians. There is also information about the early 






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missionary work among the Delaware Indians and about the history of the Brotherton 
Reservation. 

It has a collection of Lenape and Cherokee artifacts, including spoons, ladles, bowls, 
mortar and pestle, baskets, gourd bottles, and dippers. In addition there are musical 
instruments for both social and ceremonial occasions, including flutes, whistles, gourd, 
bark and turtle rattles, water drums, folded deerhide drums, and beaters. 

The costume collection consists of men’s and women’s garments made of beaded 
buckskin and cloth. These include headwear, moccasins, men’s ceremonial and dance 
regalia, and women’s skirts, yokes and leggings, all incorporating Eastern Woodland 
designs and decorations. 

The office has recorded oral histories and transcribed descriptions of medicinal 
practices, traditional beliefs, and dream interpretations. Exhibitions and lectures on 
Indian culture and history are presented several times during the year. A collection of 
Lenape Indian craftwork is available on loan. 


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New Jersey Network 

1573 Parkside Avenue 
Trenton 08638 
(609) 882-5252 

Open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

New Jersey Network is a UHF public television station (Channels 50 Montclair, 52 
Trenton, 58 New Brunswick, and 23 Camden). It has produced the following films of 
folklore interest: Aqui Se Habla Espanol , which conveys the richness of Hispanic- 
American culture in New Jersey; The Burg: A State of Mind , portraying the Italian- 
American neighborhood of Chambersburg in Trenton; In The Barnegat Bay Tradition , 
which depicts the construction and use of duck decoys and sneakboxes (duck hunting boats) 
along the Jersey shore; The D & R Canal , documenting canal songs with photographs and 
narration; Famous Tiller Sharks , which features the history and folk music of the old 
Morris Canal; Fare You Well Old House: Dutch Houses of the Hackensack River Valley ; 
Fare You Well Old House: Patterned-Ended Houses of Salem County ; Ghosts of the Pines , 
which rediscovers forty ghost towns in the Pine Barrens; Issei, Nisei, Sansei , on tradition 
and change in the Japanese community at Seabrook, New Jersey; Mother Leed’s 
Thirteenth Child , a look at the Jersey Devil through drawings, photographs, and 
dramatization; and Schooners on the Bay , which depicts the history, use, and restoration 
of Delaware Bay oyster boats. 


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New Jersey State Council on the Arts 
109 West State Street 
Trenton 08625 
(609) 292-6130 

Open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

The New Jersey State Council on the Arts has both a Folk Arts Program and a Folk- 
Artists-in-Education Program. The Folk Arts Program contributed fieldwork to the 














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Smithsonian Institution’s 1983 Festival of American Folklife featuring New Jersey. It also 
coproduced, along with New Jersey Network and the New Jersey Historical Commission a 
half-hour documentary film about Delaware Bay oyster boats titled Schooners on the Bay 
(1984). The Folk-Artists-in-Education Program brings traditional artists into the schools. 
Projects in this program have been done in Cinnaminson in 1977, Camden in 1978, Bayville 
in 1979-80, and Cumberland County from 1982 to 84. The arts council possesses the 
fieldwork documentation for these projects. The Camden project resulted in the 
publication of A Tree Smells Like Peanut Butter: Folk Artists in a City School (1979). 


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New Jersey State Museum 

205 West State Street 
Trenton 08625 
(609) 292-6300 

Open Tuesday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.; and Sundays and most holidays 
from 1 to 5 p.m. Closed New Years, July 4, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. 

Among the Native American materials in the museum’s collection are photographs and 
diagrams of archeological sites, photographs of modern Delaware Big Houses in Oklahoma, 
and a WPA Indian site survey. The museum has reconstructed about sixty earthenware 
vessels and has numerous prehistoric and contact period shards. The collection also 
includes Lenape baskets from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, impressions of 
prehistoric baskets, netting found on pottery shards, and approximately fifty block- 
stamped baskets. Frank Speck collected Lenape dolls, games, blouses, headdresses, and 
baskets in Oklahoma in the early twentieth century, which are now held by the museum. 
The museum possesses prehistoric combs, pendants, and clothing, made from trade cloth, 
and bracelets, trinkets and rings, made from fragments of broken kettles. The museum 
also possesses a dugout canoe, net sinkers, and fishhooks. Effigy figures, rattles, and 
drumsticks used in the Big House ceremony illustrate Lenape musical and religious 
traditions. In addition there are the collections and the field records of many state and 
federally sponsored archeological excavations between 1912 and the present. The museum 
also has videotape interviews with individuals and groups in New Jersey today who claim 
to be descendants of the Lenape. 

The museum’s traditional ceramics include redware by Joseph McCully of Trenton, the 
Seigletown pottery, Richard Thorn’s pottery near Bordentown, and William J. Smith’s 
pottery in Bridgeton, as well as stoneware by James Morgan of Cheesquake, P. P. Sanford 
of Barbadoes Neck, Warne and Letts of South Amboy, and numerous others. A collection 
of traditional chairs includes a rocker attributed to John Lanning or Maskel Ware, a 
stencilled central Jersey chair, several lower Delaware Valley slat-back chairs (c. 1780- 
c.1900), and some North Jersey slat-back chairs from the Cooper chair factory in 
Bergenfield. Traditional Dutch furnishings include a kas from Somerset County, a kitchen 
cupboard, and a spoon rack from Hackensack. The museum's New Jersey glass collection 
includes a mug and some window panes which may be from Wistarburg. 

The museum possesses the Robert J. Sim collection of agricultural and maritime 
equipment, which includes hay saws, flails, reap hooks, cranberry scoops, ice tools, 
basket-making tools, and clam and oyster harvesting equipment. It also has tools used by 
blacksmiths, carpenters, charcoal burners, potters, sail-makers, and decoy carvers. 

Among the religious items in the collection are Russian icons, gravestone rubbings 
from Perth Amboy to Burlington, and an early twentieth-century woodcarving entitled 
"Santo Donato" by Pasquale Guidotti, an Italian immigrant living in Trenton. The museum 
possesses nineteenth-century needlework, samplers, quilts, and woven coverlets. 




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Among the museum’s folk paintings are four by Micah Williams; three anonymous 
Bergen County watercolor portraits; an anonymous landscape titled ’’Delaware Water 
Gap;” Mary Jane Foster’s ’’Hoagland Farms;’’ Margaret Robert’s ’’Bridge Across the 
Delaware;” and Ralph Collins’s ’’Steamship Johns Hopkins.” There are also New Jersey 
fraktur and ink and watercolor drawings on eighteenth-century land survey exercises. 
Folk sculpture in the collection includes a redware bird figurine by William Smith, a wood 
carving of Abraham Lincoln by an itinerant carver in Bordentown, and duck decoys by 
Harry V. Shourds, Hurley Conklin, Lloyd Johnson and others. 

The museum has tape recorded oral histories of several individuals who worked in the 
Trenton pottery industry; it maintains photographs and business records of potteries in 
Trenton and South Amboy. A print collection from the nineteenth century depicts New 
Jersey scenes. 

The museum has produced several traveling exhibitions, including ’’Three Hundred 
Years of New Jersey Domestic Architecture,” "New Jersey Indians," "Ukrainian- 
Americans: An Ethnic Portrait," "Archaeological Study Kit," and "Indian Artifacts." 


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New Providence Historical Society 
1350 Springfield Avenue 
New Providence 07974 
No telephone 

Open Thursday from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., and Sunday from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. 

The society's collection focuses on New Providence home life in the Victorian era. Its 
textile collection contains six coverlets, three quilts, two homemade rugs, and a homespun 
tablecloth. Tools in the collections include a spinning wheel, a loom, a yarn winder, and a 
carpenter's plane. In addition there are diaries, merchants’ journals, church minutes, a 
Bible collection, and about seventy tape-recorded oral histories. The society provides 
programs for the local schools, publishes a newsletter, and sponsors community events. 


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The Newark Museum 

49 Washington Street 
Box 540 
Newark 07101 
(201) 733-6600 

Open from noon to 5 p.m. Closed New Years, Independence Day, Thanksgiving, and 
Christmas. 

From 1930 to 1932 the Newark Museum held two pioneering exhibits on American folk 
painting and sculpture. Since then the museum has remained active in the field of folk art. 

Traditional furnishings in the museum include 131 pieces of New Jersey redware, 
yelloware, and stoneware. Two Hackensack cupboards c. 1820, two painted fancy chairs by 
David Ailing of Newark, and several pieces of country furniture are in the collection. The 
museum also reports a handmade sled, a cheese press, two carved spoon racks, and two 
dolls made in Newark. 

The museum maintains a textile collection, including homespun cloth, five woven 


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coverlets, twenty New Jersey needlework pictures or samplers, and twenty-six New 
Jersey quilts from the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries. 

The museum’s decorative arts collection includes two fraktur from between 1818 and 
1825, carved and painted trade signs, a cigar-store Indian and the cigar-store figure 
’’Captain Jinks of the Light Horse Marines.” Seven decoys, six by Thomas David and the 
seventh from Raritan Bay, are reported, as is an early twentieth century dragonfly 
weather vane from Sussex County. 

Several items from the manuscript collection are also of interest. The museum has 
diaries, apprenticeship papers from a printer, a hat finisher, and a jeweler, the minute 
books from two mid-nineteenth century Newark fire companies, and nineteen handwritten 
religious sermons from the nineteenth century. The museum also reports twenty-six 
photographs depicting occupational traditions, particularly firefighting. 


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Newark Public Library 

5 Washington Street 
Box 630 

Newark 07101-0630 
(201) 733-7776 or 7775 

Open Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., and Saturday from 9 a.m. 
to 5 p.m. Saturday hours are from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the summer. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Closed 
Sundays. 

The New Jersey Reference Division of the Newark Public Library specializes in topics 
related to Newark, Essex County, and the state of New Jersey. The library owns a copy of 
the Historical American Buildings Survey and photographs and drawings from all of New 
Jersey’s 567 communities. The Harry Dorer Collection contains several photographs of 
interest to folklorists. The library also reports newspaper clippings, including selections 
from regional, ethnic, and black newspapers. It has the papers of some of Newark’s early 
Euro-American residents and a collection of unpublished theses and dissertations on New 
Jersey history and culture. The library has collected transcriptions of oral histories and 
maintains the New Jersey Illustration Collection, which includes photographs of ethnic 
traditions and occupations. A special card file on its unpublished materials is maintained; 
one of the sub-headings is New Jersey folklore. The library also has a subject file on the 
newspaper stories written by Henry Charlton Beck and the photographs of William 
Augustine, who collaborated on many New Jersey folklore collecting projects in the 1940s 
and 1950s. 


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North Jersey Highlands Historical Society 
P.O. Box 248 
Ringwood 07456 
(201) 962-6548 

Research library open by appointment. 

The main interest of the society is in the local iron industry. The society’s library, 
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histories and copies of early business ledgers. The society also publishes a journal on North 
Jersey Highlands history. 


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The Noyes Museum 
P.O. Box 283 
Lily Lake Road 
Oceanville 08231 
(609) 652-8848 

Open Wednesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. 
Closed on major holidays and during January and February. 

Although the Noyes Museum is primarily a fine arts museum, it possesses the VanFleet 
circus, a hand-carved model of a three-ring circus by Frank VanFleet of Fieldsboro, and 
the Noyes Collection of more than 3,000 duck decoys, mainly from southern New Jersey. 
The museum has daily decoy carving demonstrations by Gary Giberson. 


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Ocean City Historical Museum 
409 Wesley Avenue 
Ocean City 08226 
(609) 399-1801 

Open Tuesday through Saturday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. in the winter, and Monday through 
Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the summer. 

Mainly concerned with Victorian items, the Ocean City Historical Museum has a 
number of artifacts of interest to folklorists, including quilts, samplers, coverlets, decoys, 
scrimshaw, and a sneakbox. 


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Ocean County Historical Museum 

26 Hadley Avenue 
Toms River 08753 
(201) 341-1800 

Open Tuesday and Thursday from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon, and by 
appointment. 

The museum, operated by the Ocean County Historical Society, is located in a house 
built before 1850 and added to and refurbished in a Victorian manner in 1867. Although 
the furnishings are largely Victorian, there are many items of interest to the New Jersey 
folklorist, including redware, stoneware, a Ware chair c. 1824, and several rush-bottomed 
chairs from the eighteenth century. The museum displays hand-crafted quilts, which 
include a Star of Bethlehem crib quilt c. 1870, a Liberty quilt with the image of an eagle 


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in the center, a Senator Thomas Mathis quilt c. 1880, and an autograph quilt dated 1906. 
The museum also keeps a braided, oval rag rug, a sampler from 1821, coverlets, and 
linsey-woolsey clothing. 

The museum displays many artifacts from traditional occupations. Among those with 
South Jersey associations are a Barnegat Bay sneakbox model, a leather boat bailer, a hay 
fork, a cradle scythe, an oxen yoke, cranberry rakes, scoops, and sorters, a blueberry 
scoop, a bog hook, marsh horseshoes, a grub ax for cutting bog vines, three eel pots, and a 
netting shuttle used to repair nets in the pound fisheries. Other tools include planes, 
spokeshaves, routers, back saws, a sharpening grinder, and a two-handled crosscut saw. 

There is a collection of folk art, including a Whig Party banner with a circular oil 
painting of the ship New Jersey surrounded by embroidery. The banner was made by the 
women of Tuckerton and was carried in the 1841 inaugural parade in Washington. 
Paintings by Warren Sheppard c. 1870, Mrs. Edwin Berry c. 1890, G.R. Hardenbergh c. 
1899, Dr. C.S. Street dated 1905, and Harriet Wilson dated 1940 figure in the museum’s 
collection. It also holds duck and goose decoys by Barnegat Bay carvers. In addition there 
is a small collection of New Jersey Indian projectile points and pottery shards. 

The museum has collected oral histories, Pinelands folksongs, diaries, and the account 
books of a blacksmith, a general store manager, and a cranberry bog operator from the 
mid-nineteenth century. To these are added of cranberry picking and other agricultural 
activities. Several theses on the religion, the sawmill and cranberry industries, whaling, 
smuggling and privateering are kept by the museum. 


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Old Barracks Museum 

Barrack Street 
Trenton 08608 
(609) 396-1776 

Open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. 

Built during the French and Indian War, the Old Barracks were restored in 1915. The 
barracks and officers’ house are furnished with American country furniture from the 
eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including two hooded cradles, twenty-three 
slat-back chairs, fourteen American-made Windsor chairs, nine gateleg and tavern tables, 
four settees, and other pieces. The kitchen is furnished with a roasting oven, a mortar and 
pestle, a toaster, a burl bowl, earthenware, stoneware, pewterware, and other food 
utensils. 

Two spinning wheels are complemented by a wool wheel, a flax brake, a yarn winder, a 
flax comb, and carders. Textiles in the collection include eight quilts and coverlets, four 
linen bedsheets, and twenty-five samplers, all from the eighteenth and early nineteenth 
centuries. 

The museum has a folk art collection which features such items as a fraktur birth 
certificate dated 1816, seven portraits attributed to Robert Street, three anonymous early 
nineteenth century portraits, three landscape watercolors by Hatty Ann Barton and Mary 
Rhea Barton, Joseph Bray’s ’’Washington’s Triumphant Entrance into Trenton” c. 1850, and 
the anonymous ’’Molly Pitcher at the Battle of Monmouth” c. 1850. Sculpted and carved 
items in the collection include two wax portraits attributed to Patience Wright, whittlings 
by Peter N. Honey man, a paper silhouette on fabric, and eight carved powder horns. 

The museum archives contain a number of items of interest to New Jersey folklorists, 
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Old Dutch Parsonage 

65 Washington Place 
Somerville 08876 

Mailing Address: 

38 Washington Place 
Somerville 08876 
(201) 725-1015 

Open Wednesday through Friday from 9 a.m. to noon, and 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturday from 
10 a.m. to noon, and 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.; and Sunday from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. Closed 
Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years; open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on all other holidays. 

A Dutch Reformed Church minister’s house built in 1751, the Old Dutch Parsonage is a 
state-owned historic site. It reports a collection of eighteenth and nineteenth century 
furnishings. It sponsors demonstrations in eighteenth-century crafts, cooking, and military 
practices: ’’Cider Season Celebration” (October), ’’Rites of Spring” (May), and ’’Christmas 
by Candlelight" (December). 


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Old Monroe Schoolhouse Museum 

Hardyston Heritage Society 
RD 1, Box 599 
Route 94 
Hamburg 07419 
(201) 827-4459 

Open the first Sunday of the month from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., May through October, and by 
appointment. 

Built before 1819, this one-room, stone schoolhouse is now furnished with a potbelly 
stove, a drinking water pail and dipper, a teacher’s desk, slate blackboards, a diary dated 
1892, student papers, school registers, commencement programs, diplomas, a coal scuttle 
and shovel, whistles, toys, and lacework. The museum also has a magic lantern slide show 
c. 1900 on heroes and symbols of the American Revolution, which it has reproduced in 
slide form. Its material-culture collection is complemented by thirty-two tape-recorded 
oral narratives of the school’s former students and teachers. 


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Old Stone House Museum 

Ramsey Historical Association 
538 Island Road 
Ramsey 07446 
(201) 895-1126 

Open Sunday from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m., May through mid-October, and by appointment. 


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This Dutch, gambrel-roofed house was built in the 1740s. In the early nineteenth 
century it served as a home and a public house. Some of the furnishings include a Dutch 
colonial kas, Queen Anne chairs, a chair-table, a wall cabinet, and a Bergen County 
gateleg table. The museum possesses a collection of tools and a spinning wheel. Samplers, 
quilts, coverlets, tin portraits, dolls, and a few carvings are also on display. 


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Pascack Historical Society 
19 Ridge Avenue 
Park Ridge 07656 
(201) 391-1258 

Museum open Sunday from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., May through October, and by appointment. 

A former chapel, which now serves as the society’s museum, houses a collection of 
quilts, samplers, coverlets, firearms, country furniture, Victorian parlor furniture, and 
clothing from the nineteenth century. In addition there is a cabinetmaker’s bench and a 
wampum drilling machine c. 1860. The society has tape-recorded oral histories, produces a 
quarterly, and has published a dictionary of New Jersey Dutch usage. 


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Passaic County Historical Society 

Lambert Castle 

Valley Road 

Paterson 07503 

(201) 345-6900 

The museum is open Wednesday through Sunday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. The library and 
other research facilities are open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and by 
appointment. 

The society possesses a collection of material culture and decorative arts from the 
nineteenth century. The quilt collection includes a signature quilt c. 1850, an oak leaf 
quilt, a ’’hearts and gizzards” quilt, and a quilt which combines the union square and bear’s 
claw patterns. The nearby Lambert Mills furnished the silk for some of the society’s silk 
quilts; these include a web or octagon quilt, a crazy quilt c. 1892, and a silk worker's log 
cabin quilt in a barn-raising pattern. The pottery collection includes Native American 
pottery shards and stoneware crocks and jugs decorated with blue cobalt glaze. The 
society has fifteen to twenty folk paintings, including two pastels by Micah Williams and 
two oils attributed to him. Among its displays are carved powder horns, a large leather 
shoe which advertized a cobbler’s shop, and a large tin advertising sign depicting a dog 
holding a tin kettle. 

The society also has uncataloged journals, letters, and photographs, as well as a 
collection of ethnic newspapers from the turn of the century. 


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Paterson Museum 

2 Market Street 
Paterson 07501 
(201) 881-3874 

Open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday from 
12:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. 

Though not restricted to New Jersey materials, the museum collection includes a 
number of items from Paterson and the surrounding area. The museum possesses stone 
tools and pottery by the Lenape Indians. Euro-American items include stoneware jugs and 
vessels, a late nineteenth century plow, lacework, and jacquard silk pictures. The museum 
displays prints, woodcuts, and lithographs of early Paterson and collects photographs of 
early northern New Jersey residences and historical sites. The city museum sponsors a 
Great Falls festival on Labor Day weekend. The staff specializes in anthropology, 
mineralogy, history, and photography. 


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Paterson Public Library 

250 Broadway 
Paterson 07501 
(201) 881-3750 

Open Monday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Tuesday and Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.; 
Thursday and Friday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

The library possesses tape-recorded oral histories, religious histories, baptismal 
records, newspaper clippings, and theses and dissertations on Paterson. 


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Pennsauken Historical Society 
Burrough-Dover House 
9201 Burrough-Dover Lane 
P.O. Box 56 
Pennsauken 08110 
(609) 663-4191 
(609) 662-9175 

Usually open one weekend each month between May and September. Open also on the 
second weekend in December, and by appointment. 

This New Jersey red sandstone structure was built in two sections. The first, c. 1710, 
shows evidence'of Swedish-Finnish influence, while the newer section, dated 1793, is in 
the Federal style. The house is furnished with materials which date prior to 1850. Kitchen 
utensils, quilts, bedspreads, and coverlets are prominent in the collection. The society 
sponsors spinning and weaving demonstrations, chicken barbecues and corn boils, school 
tours, and peach and strawberry festivals. 


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129 

Plainsboro Historical Society 
641 Plainsboro Road 
Plainsboro 08540 
(609) 799-0909 

Collection available by appointment only. 

The collection includes Lenape projectile points, stone ax-heads, tape-recorded oral 
histories, and files and photographs from the Walker-Gordon dairy farm, which operated in 
the early twentieth century. 


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Pleasant Valley Preservation Society 
P.O. Box 102 
Holmdel 07733 
(201) 946-4174 

Open by appointment only. 

The society is dedicated to the preservation of the history and landscape of Pleasant 
Valley, the architecture of which demonstrates Dutch origins with English influences. The 
society has researched the historical houses in the valley and has been involved in having 
the area declared a historic district. It possesses title searches to some of these houses, as 
well as the Gordon family letters and papers. The society meets annually at the Ely grist 
mill owned by Carl F. Zellers and monthly at members’ homes. 


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Port Republic Historical Society 

56 Main Street 
Port Republic 08241 
(609) 652-9186 

Open by appointment. 

The society has collected slides of local architecture built between the Revolutionary 
War and the Victorian era. The society’s collection includes Native American, Colonial, 
and Federal furnishings. Watercraft are represented by three ship models c. 1900, and two 
clipper ship models which are kept under glass. Among the decorative items in the 
society’s collection are two folk paintings of local buildings, a folk portrait of a sea 
captain’s son c. 1850, two decoys carved by Gary Giberson, and some southern New Jersey 
glass. 

The society has collected the records of a local sawmill and has tape recorded oral 
histories. It publishes a newsletter and sponsors an annual essay contest in the local public 
schools. 


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132 

Powhatan Renape National Museum 

323 A Route 70, RD #1 
Medford 08055 
(609) 261-4747 

Open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday by 
appointment. 

The museum has a variety of Native American artifacts from throughout North 
America and some artifacts from Guatemala and Mexico. It also has a few New Jersey 
Indian artifacts. It publishes a newsletter and periodically conducts craft demonstrations, 
a Green Corn Ceremony, and a Land Ceremony. 


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Princeton History Project 

158 Nassau Street 
Princeton 08540 

Researchers are advised to make an appointment. 

In addition to publishing a monthly journal, The Princeton Recollector , the Princeton 
History Project maintains documentary collections of local and regional history and 
culture. Among these are notes on traditional material culture produced in Princeton and 
drawings and samples from stencilling done in the early nineteenth century. The project 
has collected documentation concerning wall paintings found in a house inhabited by 
Italian immigrants in the early twentieth century. Other items describe camp meetings, 
ox roasts, student parades, arbor days, and ethnic Christmas celebrations. The project has 
developed a recipe collection, produced 250 tape-recorded oral histories and 150 tape- 
recorded group interviews, and stimulated the writing of many personal reminiscences. In 
addition, it sponsors a high school internship program and invites local residents to share 
memories of the Princeton area at monthly gatherings. 


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Ringwood Manor House Museum 

Ringwood State Park 
Sloatsburg Road 
Box 1304 
Ringwood 07456 
(201) 962-7031 

Open Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., May through October, and for a 
special "Victorian Christmas" on the first two weekends in December. 

The site of an eighteenth-century iron plantation, Ringwood Manor was built in 1807 
and later modified in a Victorian style. In addition to Native American implements, 
blacksmith’s tools, and iron worker’s tools, the museum possesses one of Edward Morgan’s 
folk paintings of the Long Pond ironworks. The museum has also collected journals, tape 
recordings, and transcripts of oral histories. 



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Rockingham 
P.O. Box 22 
Rocky Hill 08553 
(609) 921-8835 

Open Wednesday through Friday from 9 a.m. to noon, and from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturday 
from 10 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.; and Sunday from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. 

This early eighteenth-century New England farmhouse served as a headquarters for 
Washington during the Revolutionary War. The site has a washhouse and a detached 
kitchen. It has a collection of eighteenth-century Delaware Valley furniture, kitchen 
utensils, and two Dutch kasten . In addition there is a collection of textiles, including 
blankets, coverlets, and homespun sheets. Rockingham is a state-owned historic site. 


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Rodina: American Russian Welfare Society 

199-A Alexander Avenue 
Howell 08701 
(201) 368-9503 

Museum open by appointment. 

The society organizes traditional Russian festivals, name-day celebrations, and 
religious activities. It maintains an art studio and supports theatre and dance groups. An 
annual exhibition of traditional Russian art is held in March. The society’s museum 
contains a collection of religious icons, amulets, and charms. 


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Roebling Historical Society 
140 Third Avenue 
Roebling 08554 
(609) 499-2415 

Open by appointment. 

The society is concerned with the history of Roebling, a company town built in 1905. 
The society has access to the private collections of the decendants of eastern European 
immigrants who lived in the company houses. Its own collection includes quilts, 
embroidered items, and tape-recorded oral histories by Roebling's workers. It maintains a 
file of newspaper clippings and photographs relating to steel work, and has copies of 
diaries, journals, and ethnic recipes for food and medicine. 



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138 

The Roselle Historical Society 
116 East Fourth Avenue 
Roselle 07203 
(201) 245-9010 

The society's collection includes glass slides taken in Roselle between 1860 and 1910 
by George Warner and three histories of Roselle written by local residents. 


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Rutgers University 

Alexander Library, Donald A. Sinclair Special Collection 
169 College Avenue 
New Brunswick 08903 
(201) 932-7501 

Open Monday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed during the summer on 
Saturday. 

The Alexander Library's Donald A. Sinclair Special Collection contains materials 
documenting New Jersey's history and culture. The collection has 250,000 photographs and 
prints of New Jersey's landscape and architecture, including a file on colonial Dutch 
houses and the photographs of William Augustine. The collection maintains 750 traditional 
furnishings, about half of them from New Jersey. These artifacts are detailed in a 
published inventory available from the collection. Native Americans are represented in 
the collection by a set of stone implements and by the Philhower Collection of notes and 
photographs pertaining to New Jersey's Indians. Another collection of 350 diaries and 
journals, including numerous farm journals, records New Jersey life between 1743 and 
1957. A broadside collection includes sheets of music from New Jersey. Rutgers students 
have gathered tape recordings and transcripts of tales, myths, and other verbal arts for a 
folklore course at the Douglass College. The library also has theses and dissertations on 
New Jersey history and folklife. 


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Rutgers University 

Cook College 

Department of Agricultural Engineering 
New Brunswick 08903 
(201) 932-9534 

Collection available by appointment only. 

Maintained- by the Rutgers Department of Agricultural Engineering, the museum 
contains approximately 2,000 examples of domestic and farm tools dating from the early 
nineteenth century to the present. The collection includes sickles, reapers, threshers, and 
equipment used in the production of horse harnesses. The museum features a collection of 
plows, including eighteenth-century plows with wooden moldboards; the Newbold plow (the 
first with an iron moldboard); the Peacock plow, patented in 1807; the Stevens plow, 
patented in 1821; the Deats plow, patented in 1828; and Irving Hoagland's walking plow. 


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Rutgers University 

New Jersey Folklore Archive 
American Studies Department 
Douglass College 
New Brunswick 08903 
(201) 932-9179 

Open Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to noon, during the academic year. 

The archive contains about 300 papers on New Jersey folklore by Rutgers students. 
These are filed alphabetically by the author’s name and are indexed by geography, 
ethnicity, and genre. The papers include studies of artifacts, music, verbal arts, games, 
customs, and beliefs. Some contain photographs. The American Studies Department offers 
internships to Rutgers University undergraduates, sponsors the annual New Jersey Folk 
Festival on the last Saturday in April, and publishes New Jersey Folklore: A Statewide 
Journal. 


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Rutgers University 
Institute of Jazz Studies 
135 Bradley Hall 
Newark 07102 
(201) 648-5595 

Open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Because of limited staff and 
listening facilities, an appointment is required. 

Beginning as Marshall Stearns’s private collection, the institute has 60,000 
phonographic recordings, 3,000 books, and numerous tapes, periodicals, theses, newspaper 
clippings, photographs, films, videotapes and memorabilia relating to jazz. The institute 
also has collected African instruments and tape recorded the oral histories of important 
figures in the jazz world. The institute sponsors concerts, seminars, and lectures. 


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Rutgers University 
Urban Folklife Archive 
Music Department 

Newark College of Arts and Sciences 
Bradley Hall, N.C.A.S. 

Newark 07102 
(201) 649-5194 

Open by appointment. 

The archive contains tapes of New Jersey folk songs and traditional instrumental 
music recorded by ethnomusicology students at Rutgers. In addition to a small collection 
of traditional musical instruments, the archive has manuscripts, photographs, slides, and 
negatives which relate to the diverse ethnic traditions of New Jersey’s cities. 




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Rutgers University 

Zimmerli Art Museum 
Hamilton Street 
New Brunswick 08903 
(201) 932-7096 

Open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday from 
noon to 5 p.m. During the summer months the gallery is closed on Saturdays. 

The Zimmerli Art Museum possesses examples of New Jersey’s folk art traditions. A 
paneled door painted in the early eighteenth century by Daniel Hendrickson depicts a vase 
of flowers on one side and a man on horseback on the other. An anonymous mourning 
picture, ’’Sacred to the Memory of Joanna Adams,” is a watercolor and embroidery on silk 
which portrays mourners and the nineteenth-century mourning symbol: the urn and 
willows. The museum also displays a hand-carved model of a horse-drawn cart and driver. 
It has Micah Williams’s portrait, "Young Girl in White Dress with Cherries,” and "William 
Penn’s Treaty with the Indians,” painted by a follower of Edward Hicks from the early 
nineteenth century. 

The museum has also compiled slides of all the works in the permanent collection and 
has slide-tape programs on its past exhibitions. These include "Hungarian Folk Art,” 
"Agricultural Implements," and the "Architectural History of New Brunswick." 


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Salem County Historical Society 
79-83 Market Street 
Salem 08079 
(609) 935-5004 

The society has a collection of southern New Jersey glass and glass-blowing 
implements. It maintains a firearms collection and has Native American stone tools and 
projectile points. Among its decorative arts are a number of Salem County quilts, some 
portraits by local painters, a folk painting of John Fenwick’s first home at Ivy Point done 
about 1867 by William Patterson, and the H.J. Hines cane collection. The society manages 
a museum with nineteen rooms, located in the Alexander Grant House, built in 1721. This 
house is furnished in the colonial style. Nearby is a stone barn with a collection of 
agricultural implements. 


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Shrewsbury Historical Society 

Box 333 

Shrewsbury 07701 
(201) 741-9406 

Open Tuesday and Thursday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and 
by appointment. 

The society reported quilts, and memorabilia of churches, industries, and old houses in 


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Shrewsbury. The society’s library contains books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, tape 
recordings, and slides related to the town’s history. It has published a number of works on 
Shrewsbury’s history, a cookbook which includes traditional recipes, and pictures and 
histories of old Shrewsbury families. 


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Somerset County Historical Society 
Van Veghten House 
Bridgewater 08807 

Mailing Address: 

P.O. Box 632 
Somerville 08878 
(201) 722-0018 

Open Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., or by appoinment. 

The Van Veghten House, a Dutch, two-story structure with a gabled roof built in 1715, 
contains the society's library and is its headquarters. Here the society displays Indian 
projectile points and an Indian mortar and pestle used in the Millstone Valley for grinding 
corn. Among the items used by the Euro-American settlers are three small needlepoints 
from the mid-eighteenth century and a clacker used to warn townsfolk of approaching 
British troops. In the early nineteenth century, traveling peddlers sold to local residents 
the bootcleaners, tablecloths, and linens which can be seen in the society's collection. 
Also displayed are assorted buttons, pins, and buckles, a skein of flax raised locally in the 
early nineteenth century, some locally-crocheted lace c. 1890 made from flax grown in 
Far Hills, New Jersey, and a framed, sixteen-by seventeen-inch sampler dated 1847. The 
society also reported an old hand sickle and a farmer's anvil. One item of particular 
interest is a canal boat model, itself over one hundred years old. 


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Sons of the American Revolution 

New Jersey Society 
1045 East Jersey Street 
Elizabeth 07201 
(201) 355-1776 

Open Tuesday and Thursday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. 

The society has access to the Nathaniel Bonnel House built in 1682. It owns Windsor 
chairs, a pair of stencilled rush-bottom chairs, and a centennial sampler. The society 
reports that some of its genealogical applications contain old sayings, descriptions of birth 
practices, medicinal recipes, and other examples of folklore. 


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South Plainfield Historical Society 

P.0. Box 11 

South Plainfield 07080 

(201) 968-6417 and (201) 754-2386 

Open by appointment. 

The society’s materials are stored in the homes of its members. It possesses slides of 
South Plainfield’s historic houses, tape-recorded oral histories, and some American Indian 
lithic material. The society has sponsored lectures on Indians of central New Jersey. A 
map of South Plainfield's historic buildings and a survey of the town’s Indian sites are 
available through the society. 


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Southern New Jersey United Methodist Conference Historical Society 

The Bishop's Office 

The Pennington School 

Pennington 08534 

(609) 737-3940 

Open by appointment. 

The society’s collection focuses on New Jersey Methodist history. Among the artifacts 
in the collection are crosses and love feast cups. The archives contain ministers’ diaries 
from the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and Methodist newspapers from the 
nineteenth century. The society has published documents and histories related to New 
Jersey Methodism; its annual yearbook contains original articles. 


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The Speedwell Village 

333 Speedwell Avenue 
Morristown 07960 
(201) 540-0211 

Open Thursday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Sunday from 2 p.m. to 5 
p.m., April through October. Also open by appointment. 

The collections of the Speedwell Village date from the early nineteenth century. They 
include tools from the iron-making industry and farm tools, such as scythes, apple pickers, 
a bull rake, a winnower, wooden shovels, and wooden hay forks. An ice-harvesting exhibit 
contains ice saws, picks, and tongs. The factory still supports an old chestnut mill race 
and an overshot waterwheel which is twenty-four feet in diameter. 

The historic village also displays works of folk art, including a satin quilt, a friendship 
quilt dated 1890, a coverlet by Mary Fisher dated 1836, several examples of embroidery c. 
1840, a mourning picture, and some portraits c. 1840. 

Manuscripts in the collection include letters and several volumes of Stephen Vail's 
diary (1825-1864). The village is also the site of such events as an antique show and sale, a 
craft demonstration day, and Independence Day, Christmas, and winter celebrations. 


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152 

Spring Lake Historical Society 
P.O. Box 703 

Municipal Building, 5th and Warren Avenues 
Spring Lake 07762 
(201) 449-0772 

Open Tuesday from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., April through October, and the first Tuesday 
of the month from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., November through March. Also open the first 
Sunday of the month from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. 

The society is dedicated to recording and preserving the history of this resort 
community. Within its collection are a Bicentennial quilt, a homespun blanket of local 
sheeps wool, diaries, memoirs, business inventories, clippings from the Spring Lake 
Gazette (1921-1949), and photographs of people, places and events, such as Big Sea Day, a 
local late nineteenth-century festival. This festival has recently been revived. 


153 

The Spy House Museum Complex 
114 Port Monmouth Road 
Port Monmouth 07758 
(201) 291-0559 and (201) 787-1807 

Open Saturday from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.; Sunday from 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.; Monday from 1 
p.m. to 3 p.m.; and by appointment. During the summer the museum also opens on 
Wednesday from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. 

The museum focuses on the history of the New Jersey bayshore from Monmouth 
County to the New York harbor. The Whitlock-Seabrook-Wilson Homestead, which houses 
the collection, was built in three sections between 1663 and 1699. All artifacts in this 
building are from private collections. The house is furnished with local furniture and 
antique utensils from various periods. A marine exhibit displays nets, traps, anchors, 
blocks, tools, and rakes. The museum also has quilts, samplers, coverlets, Native 
American pottery, and a collection of household and business inventories. The museum 
staff demonstrates the use of tools, and provides lectures and slide shows on topics from 
commercial fishing to historic restoration. 


154 

Sussex County Historical Society 
82 Main Street 
Newton 07860 
(201) 383-1715 

Open Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. 

The society’s museum collection includes chairs from the mid-eighteenth-century, a 
hay fork manufactured in Newton, surveyor’s tools, iron pigs from the Andover Furnace, 
forge tools, one quilt, coverlets and samplers, two shadow boxes, several folk paintings, 



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and the ’’Millionaire” Smith Collection of Native American artifacts. The manuscript 
collection includes ledger books from local stores and mills; old photographs, including 200 
of the construction of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad; and a manuscript 
history by George W. Roy, which contains songs, stories, and descriptions of farm 
practices. 


155 

Thomas Clarke House 

500 Mercer Street 
Princeton 08540 
(609) 921-0074 

Open Wednesday through Friday from 9 a.m. to noon, and 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturday from 
10 a.m. to noon, and 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.; and Sunday from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. Closed 
Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years. 

The Thomas Clarke House, built in 1770, and its accompanying barn and smokehouse 
are located in Princeton Battlefield Park. The six rooms of the house which are open to 
the public display furniture, pewterware, redware, and spinning equipment from the late 
eighteenth century. There are also three samplers from the early nineteenth century and a 
collection of patchwork quilts. Many of these items are on loan. The Clark House sponsors 
candlelight tours through the house, semi-annual talks on Princeton battlefield, craft 
demonstrations, and special exhibits, such as quilt shows and costume and needlework 
exhibits. 


156 

Thomas Warne Historical Museum and Library 
Route 516 

Old Bridge Township 08846 

Mailing Address: 

R.D. 1, Box 150 
Matawan 07747 
(201) 566-0348 

Located in a one-room schoolhouse, the museum focuses on rural life in nineteenth- 
century New Jersey. Among the traditional furnishings are baskets, redware, stoneware, 
glassware, boot jacks, and handmade toys. The museum has a large tool collection which 
includes clam rakes, mole traps, saws, axes, log pullers, corn huskers, scythes, flails, guns, 
cider presses, and other implements used in hunting, farming, carpentry, and 
leathermaking. Decorative items, such as quilts and coverlets, complement the folk 
paintings in the collection. 

The maritime heritage of Middlesex County is preserved in the museum’s collection of 
photographs of traditional watercraft and related equipment. Also in the files are church 
records, sheet music, diaries, memoirs, journals, logs, inventories and newspaper clippings. 
The museum sponsors demonstrations of weaving, soapmaking, and other pre-industrial 
crafts. It also celebrates an apple festival. 


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157 

Tuckerton Historical Society 

Box 43 

Leitz Boulevard and Wisteria Lane 
Tuckerton 08087 
(609) 296-2394 

The museum is open Saturday from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., June through September. 

The society owns the Nathan Bartlett Homestead, a Quaker saltbox house. Its 
collection is housed in the Giffordtown Schoolhouse Museum, also owned by the society. It 
includes Quaker furniture from the Bartlett family, settees, rush-bottom Hitchcock 
chairs, and redware pottery. Textiles include two coverlets and Quaker clothing, including 
a bodice and a bonnet. In addition, there is a merganser decoy, carpentry tools, and a 
tinsmith’s bench with a complete set of tools. 


158 

Twin Lights State Historic Site 
P.O. Box 417 
Highlands 07732 
(201) 872-9712 

Open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Memorial Day through Labor Day. Closed Monday and 
Tuesday, October through May. Also closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years. 

The decommissioned Navesink Light Station was constructed in 1861. The site consists 
of two light towers connected by storage galleries and keeper’s quarters. The collection of 
traditional watercraft includes a Campbell beach skiff c. 1930, a crabbing skiff c. 1920, 
three Seabright skiffs c. 1900-1925, and a Barnegat Bay sneakbox c. 1930 on loan from the 
New Jersey State Museum. The historic site possesses fishing, oystering, and clamming 
equipment, as well as ships' wheels, anchors, gaffs, and boat hooks. Among the decorative 
items in the collection are a small figurehead, a stern board, and a merganser decoy c. 
1880. Three oral histories by individuals involved with life saving and the Coast Guard 
have been recorded, and the personal logs and records of light station keepers have been 
preserved by the staff. There are also photographs depicting the local fishing, boating, and 
boat-building industries, and others of the Life Station Service drills. There are also 
research papers, along with slides and films for historical societies. 


159 

Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the United States of America Museum 

P.O. Box 495, Main Street 

South Bound Brook 08880 

(201) 356-9105 

(201)356-0090 


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The museum is located at the national headquarters of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. 
The collection is divided into ethnographic and religious artifacts. They have old musical 
instruments, including banduras (a lute-like instrument), cymbaly (similar to a hammered 
dulcimer), and trembity (a woodwind instrument). There are also rushnyky (embroidered 
ritual cloths), chustyna (embroidered kerchiefs), wybijky (woodcut designs stamped on 
linen), and kylymy (woven tapestries). The collection includes pysanky (decorated Easter 
eggs) and modern Hutsul and reproduced Trypillyan pottery. In addition, there are several 
costumes from the Kiev and Hutsul regions. The religious collection contains icons, 
illuminated religious books, embroidered vestments from Kiev, and old wooden and metal 
crosses, in addition to models of old churches in Ukraine. 


160 

Union House Museum of South Jersey Americana 

Union Lake 
Millville 08332 
(609) 825-0243 

Open by request; call (609) 825-3020. 

Built of brick and timber c. 1725, the Union House served as a public house and 
subsequently as the headquarters for a 20,000 acre tract owned by proprietors Thomas and 
Richard Penn. The house is fully furnished with country furniture, pewterware, ladderback 
chairs, and quilts from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The house’s doors are 
sketched with the image of a gaff-rigged sloop. The basement contains a case of artifacts 
excavated during the restoration, including pottery fragments, a flintlock gun trigger 
guard c. 1750, a butter taster, and shards. Native American items include local prehistoric 
pottery. A diary of the present owner’s great grandfather, written between 1800 and 1821, 
has been preserved. 


161 

Upper Saddle River Historical Society 
245 Lake Street 
Upper Saddle River 07458 
No telephone 

Collection available by appointment. 

The society possesses twenty-six tape-recorded oral histories, photographs and slides 
of the five Dutch sandstone houses still standing in town, and a collection of Indian 
artifacts. These are kept in the library and in three local elementary schools. The society 
can also provide a slide show and exhibit of these items. 










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162 

The Van Allen House 

Oakland Historical Society 
P.O. Box 296 
Oakland 07436 

Open on the third Sunday of the each month from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. 

This gambrel-roofed Dutch structure was built in two sections in the early eighteenth 
century. Its holdings include many eighteenth-century furnishings and farm implements. 
The curator, a blacksmith, demonstrates the use of his personal collection of blacksmith’s 
tools. The Van Allen House is owned by the Borough of Oakland and is maintained by the 
Oakland Historical Society. 


163 

Van Harlingen Historical Society of Montgomery, Inc. 

Box 23 

Belle Mead 08502 
(201) 359-3498 

Collection open by appointment. 

The collection includes photographs of buildings, memoirs, account books, farming 
tools, and tape-recorded oral histories. Most of the collection is housed in the Gulick 
House, an eighteenth-century Dutch house used as the society’s headquarters. The society 
also maintains the Bedensville School, which can be shown by appointment. It has access 
to a number of local structures as well, including Dutch houses and barns, a Georgian 
brick house c. 1761-1763, a Federal period church, an old stone schoolhouse built in 1808, 
and smoke and spring houses. The Bridgeport Historic Agricultural District is on the 
National Register of Historic Places. It records life in a farming area and mill center over 
two centuries. 

The Van Harlingen Historical Society annually sponsors ’’May in Montgomery,” a large 
country fair, house tour, and antiques show and sale. 


164 

Van Voorhees-Quackenbush-Zabriskie House 
421 Franklin Avenue 
Wyckoff 07481 
(201) 891-0057 

Open on Wednesday and Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., July and during the academic year. 

This ten-room, Dutch Colonial house is completely furnished with eighteenth- and 
early nineteenth-century items, including country furniture, redware, stoneware, and food 
utensils. Decorative items include quilts, samplers, coverlets, embroidery, and folk 
paintings. Demonstrations are given in weaving, spinning, and open-hearth cooking. The 
trustees sponsor a fall festival and a Dutch Christmas open house. 


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165 

Vineland Historical and Antiquarian Society 
108 South Seventh Street 
Vineland 08360 
(609) 691-1111 

Open Tuesday through Saturday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Closed in August. 

The society possesses and displays traditional kitchen utensils and tools, such as hand 
plows, scythes, shovels, and ship-caulking implements. The extensive glass collection 
emphasizes the commercial glass of southern New Jersey. The society keeps a file of local 
photographs, as well as bound volumes of local newspapers. It also has genealogical family 
group sheets and cemetery inscriptions of Cumberland County. The society publishes a 
magazine each August. 


166 

Wallace House Historic Site 

New Jersey Bureau of Parks 
38 Washington Place 
Somerville 08876 
(201) 725-1015 

Open Wednesday through Friday from 9 a.m. to noon, and from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturday 
from 10 a.m. to noon, and from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.; and Sunday from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. Closed 
on Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years. 

Built in the eighteenth century, the Wallace House was Washington’s winter 
headquarters, 1778-1779. The furnishings include quilts and samplers from the eighteenth 
century. The emphasis is on the Revolutionary War. It has the same schedule of events as 
the Old Dutch Parsonage. 


167 

Warren County Historical and Genealogical Society 

P.O. Box 284 

313 Mansfield Street 

Belvidere 07823 

(201) 475-4298 

(201) 475-2512 

Open Sunday from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., or by appointment. 

The society’s collection is housed in an 1850 red brick townhouse and a carriage barn. 
It includes ladderback chairs, two children’s highchairs, baskets, tools, handwoven linen 
sheets, handmade quilts, a coverlet, and the original weathervane from the county 
courthouse. In addition, there are samplers, a hair wreath, an early organ manufactured in 
Warren County, and a collection of calling cards. 


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168 

Washington Township Historical Society and Museum 

6 Fairview Avenue 
Long Valley 07853 
(201) 876-9696 

Mailing Address: 

c/o Ms. Virginia Allen 
160 West Mill Road 
Long Valley 07853 

Open Sunday from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., except holidays; also by appointment. 

The society’s collections include a pewter communion set, two tape-recorded oral 
histories, and an audio-visual history of the township featuring slides of its old buildings. 
The holdings also include scrapbooks dating from the 1880s to the present, several family 
histories of early settlers of Long Valley, and a collection of old tools and agricultural 
implements. 

The museum has a permanent exhibit, as well as changing exhibits. 


169 

Wayne Township Historical Commission 

533 Berdan Avenue 
Wayne 07470 
(201) 694-7192 

Open everyday, except Wednesday and Thursday, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. 

The commission operates the Van Riper-Hopper House, a Dutch-American farmhouse 
built in 1786, and the Van Duyne House, a two-room farmhouse built in 1706. The Van 
Duyne House is open to the public only on special occasions. 

The collection includes a seventeenth-century chest, a Bergen County ladderback 
chair, a Dutch kas, and a complete country kitchen with cooking utensils. There are quilts 
and woven coverlets in addition to farm tools, brickmaking equipment, carpentry tools, 
and carving and spinning equipment. 


170 

Wheaton Village 

Wheaton Historical Association 
Millville 08332 
(609) 825-6800 

Open seven days per week from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., April through December, with reduced 
hours January, February, March. Closed Christmas, Thanksgiving, New Years, and Easter. 

A replica historic village in southern New Jersey, Wheaton Village features a museum 
of American glass, craft shops, and a recreation of a late-nineteenth-century glass 


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factory. The glass museum includes exhibits of American glassmaking techniques and 
materials, as well as over 8,000 items of glass: whimseys, toys, kitchenware, tableware, 
and decorative items. Among the artisans at work in the village are a decoy carver, 
lampworker, tinsmith, and potter. The recreated 1888 glass factory employs artisans who 
execute glass designs using century-old techniques. The village also has manuscript and 
photographic materials relating to the glass industry, including company correspondence, 
records, and maps. The village possesses a number of regional collections, including 
pottery, decoys, costumes, and furniture, and some tape-recorded oral histories of the 
New Jersey glass industry. The village runs a general store, a craft outlet, and a 
paperweight shop. The bookstore sells a number of publications relating to southern New 
Jersey, including Donald H. Rolfs’ Under Sail: The Dredgeboats of Delaware Bay (1971), 
published by the Wheaton Historical Association. 


171 

Whitman Stafford Farm House 

315 Maple 

Laurel Springs 08021 
(609) 784-1105 

Open weekends and by appointment. 

This colonial farmhouse built c. 1785 has a collection of New Jersey glassware, hand 
tools, quilts, and coverlets. The staff specializes in the life of Walt Whitman and the 
history of Camden County. The organization sponsors spinning and cooking 
demonstrations, and summer concerts on the green. Its bookstore includes a book on the 
history of the house. 


172 

Wortendyke Dutch Barn 

13 Pascack Road 
Park Ridge 07656 
(201) 646-3396 

Open Wednesday and Sunday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., May through October. 

This Dutch barn built c. 1750 houses a collection of early American agricultural 
implements. Owned by Bergen County, the barn is on the New Jersey and National 
Registers of Historic Places. 



INDEX 


Aaronsons, Sarah, sampler made by, 18 
Abbott (Charles Conrad) Collection, 76 
Abbott (John) House, 76 
Accordion, 6 

Account books, 28, 163; blacksmith’s, 82, 
119; cranberry bog operator’s, 119; 
general store manager’s, 119; shoe¬ 
maker’s, 72; silversmith's, 95 
Acorn Hall, 98 

’’Across the Hall” (painting), 97 
Aeromarine Plane and Motor Company, 
photographs of, 79 
African musical instruments, 142 
Afro-Americans, audiotapes of, 104 
Agriculture, 49, 163; activities, photo¬ 
graphs of, 119; cranberry, 42; equip¬ 
ment, 7, 37, 45, 52, 72, 76, 86, 92, 103, 
112; horse-powered equipment, demon¬ 
strations of, 86; implements, 54, 83, 85, 
99, 145, 156, 162, 168, 172; implements, 
exhibit of, 144; life, interviews about, 
86; machinery, 70; photographs of, 65; 
tools, 6, 7, 8, 13, 29, 35, 69, 84, 100, 
140, 151, 163, 169. See also Farm, 
Farmhouses, Farms, and Farming 
Agricultural Engineering, Department of 
(Rutgers University), 140 
’’Agricultural Implements” (exhibit), 144 
Alan (J. P.) Day, 39 
Aleshnick, B. L., 75 

Alexander Library (Rutgers University), 
139 

Allaire State Park, 39 


Allen, Nathan, 2 

Allen House, 95; learning package about, 
20 

Allentown, 2 

Ailing, David (chairmaker), 114 
The Alps, memory painting of, 3 
American Revolution, slide show about, 
122. See also Revolutionary War 
American Studies Department (Rutgers 
University), 141 
Americana Day, 1 
Amulets (Russian), 136 
Anchors, 153, 158 
Andover Furnace, 154 
Anecdotes, 79 

Antiques, show and sale, 163 
Anvil, 147 

Apple festival, 80, 156 
Apple pickers, 151 
Apprenticeship papers, 114 
Aqui Se Habla Espanol (film), 110 
Arbor Day, 133 

"Archaeological Study Kit” (exhibit), 112 
Archeology, 4, 108; exhibits, 112; field re¬ 
cords, 112; sites, photographs of, 112 
"Architectural History of New Brunswick” 
(exhibit), 144 

Architecture: learning packages about, 20; 
Colonial, 5, 30; Early American, 30; 
exhibits, 112, 144; Federal period, 28, 
128; Georgian, 21, 26, 40, 45, 163; 
Gothic revival, 49; photographs of, 18, 
30, 66, 67, 72, 107; photographs and 






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prints of, 139; prints of, 107; slides of, 
29; survey of, 59; Swedish-Finnish, 128; 
Victorian, 22, 30. See also Barns, Corn 
cribs. Farmhouses (historic), Out¬ 
buildings, Outhouses 

Archives and Records Management, 
Division of, 104 
Arney’s Mount, 5 

Arrowheads, 76. See also Projectile points 
Artifacts, 141. See also specific names of 
objects, e.g. Baskets, Chairs, etc. 
Artisans, daybooks and ledgers, 120. See 
also specific names of crafts, e.g. 

Blacksmithing, Carpentry, etc. 

Atlantic County: Hammonton, 10; Linwood, 
55; Oceanville, 117; Port Republic, 131; 
Somers Point, 6 
Atsion Furnace, 18 

Augustine, William (photographer), 115, 
139 

’’Auryansen," 13 

Ax-heads (Indian), 129 

Axes, 156; grub, 119; stone (Indian), 99 


Bailer, 119 
Baker’s tools, 107 

Banduras (Ukrainian instruments), 159 

Banners, 21, 75; Whig Party, 119 

Bannister-back chair, 40 

Baptismal records, 127 

Baptist church, quilt by ladies of, 72 

Barbadoes Neck, 112 

Barbecues, 128 

Barber shop, 8 

Barnegat, 8, 9 

Barnegat Bay, 84, 106; duck decoys, 119; 
sneakboxes, 107, 158. See also Decoys, 
Sneakboxes(boats) 

Barns, 13, 28, 34, 37, 52, 70, 79, 155, 163; 
Dutch, 1, 44, 86, 172; reconstructed, 
40; stone, 47, 145; toy, 61 
Barrel-making tools, 26. See also Coopers 
Bartlett (Nathan) Homestead, 157 
Barton, Hatty Ann (artist), 120 
Barton, Mary Rhea (artist), 120 
Basketmaking tools, 37, 112 
Baskets, 24, 37, 39, 46, 47, 54, 58, 65, 69, 
80, 88, 102, 156, 167; block-stamped 
(Indian), 112; clam, 79; Indian, 112; oys¬ 
ter, 8, 79; peach, 72; Sand Hill Indian, 
103; strawberry, 16 
Batteau, 37 


Bayville, 111 
Beach Haven, 84 
Beadwork (Indian), 109 
Beck, Henry Charlton (local historian and 
folklorist), 115 

Bedding, 92; bedspreads, 12S; sheets, 100, 
120; sheets, homespun, 72, 112, 135; 
sheets, linen, 37, 68, 167. See also Beds, 
Coverlets 

Bedensville School, 163 
Beds: campaign, 65; rope, 45, 88 
Beehive ovens, 37, 52 
Beliefs, 141; Indian, 109 
Belle Mead, 163 
Belleville, 11; folklore, 11 
Belvidere, 167 

Benches, 100: cabinetmaker’s, 124; dea¬ 
con's, 72, 107; saddler’s, 99; tinsmith's, 
157 

Benevolent Society (Hebrew), 21, 75 
Bergen County, 112; Bergenfield, 15, 16; 
Closter, 1; Fair Lawn, 52; Fort Lee, 48; 
gateleg table, 123; Hackensack, 14; Ho- 
Ho-Kus, 60; ladderback chair, 169; New 
Milford, 17; Oakland, 162; Oradell, 17; 
Paramus, 12; Park Ridge, 124, 172; 
Ramsey, 123; River Edge, 13; Ruther¬ 
ford, 89; Upper Saddle River, 161; 
Wyckoff, 164 
Bergenfield, 15, 16, 112 
Berkeley Heights, 63 
Berry, Mrs. Edwin (artist), 119 
Bibles, 83, 113 
Bibliographies, 106 
Bicycle races, photographs of, 91 
Big House (Delaware Indian): model of, 4; 
photographs of, 112 

Big Sea Day (festival), photographs of, 152 
Birth practices, descriptions of, 148 
Blacks (Afro-Americans), 107; newspaper 
clippings about, 115; photographs of, 65 
Blacksmithing: account books, 82, 119; 
craft shop, 10; demonstrations of, 38, 
39, 86, 162; equipment, 103; inventory, 
40; shop, 7, 31, 36, 44, 80, 93; tools, 7, 
13, 26, 35, 37, 46, 80, 92, 112, 162 
Blankets, 135; homespun, 6, 37, 68, 83, 100, 
112, 152 

Blauvelt (Hiram) Wildlife Museum, 17 
Blauvelt-Demarest Foundation, 17 
Blocks, 153 

Boatbuilding: photographs of, 18, 158; 

interviews with boatbuilders, 104 











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Boats, 157; batteau, 37; canal, model of, 
147; dugout canoes, 4, 13, 107, 112; 
ferry, replica of, 47; half-models of, 6; 
ice, glass plate negatives of, 95; 
leather, 119; models of, 107; ore, 10; 
oyster, film about, 106, 110; oyster, 
photographs of, 37, 107, 156; plans of, 
107; pond box, 6; railbird, 37; rescue, 
photographs of, 8; Seabright skiffs, 107; 
skiffs, 158; sloop, sketch of, 160; sneak- 
boxes, 28, 84, 107, 118, 158; sneak- 
boxes, film about, 106, 110; sneakbox, 
models of, 8, 119; steam, photographs 
of, 79. See also Watercraft 
Bocci: court, 3; photographs of, 3 
Bodice, 157 

Bonnel (Nathaniel) House, 148 
Bonnell, William (artist), 7 
Bonnets, 52, 157 
Bookmarks, embroidered, 6 
Boot cleaners, 147 
Boot jacks, 156 
Boots, miner’s, 66 
Bordentown, 18, 112 
Bottle Hill Day, 87 
Bottles, 35, 52, 76 
Botto (Pietro) House, 3 
Bow saw, 78 

Bowls: burl, 120; Indian, 109 
Boxes: painted document, 13; collection, 87 
Boxwood Hall, 19 
Branchville, 36 
Bray, Joseph (artist), 120 
Brickmaking equipment, 169 
Brickwork, patterned, 26 
’’Bridge Across the Delaware” (painting), 
112 

Bridgepoint Historic Agricultural District, 
163 

Bridgeton, 112 
Broadsides, 139 

Brotherton (Indian) Reservation, 109 
Buckles, 147 

Bucks County (Pennsyvania), 40 
Budd (Thomas) House, 101 
Budd-Jaquith Collection, 108 
Buildings: photographs of, 96, 163; slides 
of, 168. See also Architecture 
Bundles (Indian), 109 
The Burg: A State of Mind (film), 110 
Burlap bags, 72 
Burlington, 23, 33 

Burlington County, 112; Arney's Mount, 5, 


Bordentown, 18; Burlington, 23, 33; 
Columbus, 5; fraktur, 107; Medford, 80, 
132; Mt. Holly, 22, 101; quilt, 107; 
Roebling, 137 

Burtis, Sarah, sampler made by, 18 
Bushkill (Pennsylvania), 38 
Businesses: inventories of, 95; journals of, 
88; ledgers of, 82; records of, 112 
Butchering: equipment, 7; shop, 8 
Butter taster, 160 
Buttons, 147 

Cabinet, wall, 123 

Cabinet-making: bench, 124; tools, 107 
Califon, 24 

Califon Basket Company, 24 
Calling cards, 167 
Camden, 26, 110, 111 

Camden County: Camden, 26, 110, 111; 
Cherry Hill, 7; Collingswood, 32; 
Haddon Heights, 57; Haddon Township, 
25; Haddonfield, 73; Laurel Springs, 
171; Pennsauken, 128 
Camp meetings, 133; references to, 6 
Campbell beach skiff, 158 
Campbell-Christie House, 13 
Canals, 27; boats, model of, 147; film 
about, 110; models of, 27; Morris, 106 
Candlemaking: craft shop, 10; 

demonstrations of, 74; implements, 89; 
kit, 99; tools, 26 
Canes, 145 

Cape May County: Cape May Court House, 
28; Ocean City, 118 
Cape May Court House, 28 
’’Captain Jinks of the Light Horse Marines” 
(cigar-store figure), 113 
Carders, 21, 120 

Carpentry: equipment, 103; implements, 
156; photographs, 78; plane, 113; shop, 
31, 52; tools, 7, 21, 26, 37, 46, 52, 79, 
83, 92, 98, 99, 100, 107, 112, 157, 169 
Carpet beaters, 79 
Carriage: barn, 167; houses, 52, 86 
Carriage-making: shop (reconstructed), 
102; shop, photograph of, 18; tools, 79 
Cart, horse-drawn, model of, 144 
Carving, 123; decoy carver, interview with, 
104; equipment, 169; exhibits, 43; Hun¬ 
garian, 71; Indian, 109; itinerant carver, 
112. See also Decoys, Whirligig, Whit¬ 
tling 

Caulking (ship) tools, 165 







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Cedar Grove, 29 
Cedar shingle mining, 28 
Celebrations, 86; audiotapes of, 104; 
Christmas, 121, 151; Christmas (Dutch), 
164; cider, 121; firemen’s parades, 32; 
Independence Day, 151; J. P. Alan Day, 
39; Memorial Day, 87; name-day (Rus¬ 
sian), 136; spring, 121; winter, 151. See 
also Festivals 

Cemeteries, 2, 17, 42; cemetery ins¬ 

criptions, 165 
Ceramics. See Pottery 
Ceremonies: blessing of the fleet, 9; camp 
meetings, 6; Green Corn (Indian), 132; 
Land (Indian), 132; love feasts, 6 
Chain, metal, 68 
Chair table, 123 

Chairmaking: tools, 16, 95; craft shop, 10 
Chairs, 13, 17, 87, 100, 154; bannister 
back, 40; cane, 2; Cooper, 16; Cooper, 
manuscript of lecture on, 16; Cooper 
factory, account book of, 15; Hack¬ 
ensack, 16; high, 167; ladderback, 18, 
40, 49, 52, 58, 65, 160, 167, 169; 
painted, 72; Queen Anne period, 52, 
123; rocking, 112; rush-bottom, 2, 119, 
148, 157; sample, 52; stencilled, 65, 
112; slat-back, 112, 120, 180; Ware, 
118, 37, 119; Windsor, 18, 52, 120, 148 
Challah covers (Jewish), 75 
Chambersburg (Trenton), film about, 110 
Chapels, 85, 124 
Charcoal burning tools, 112 
Charms (Russian), 136 
Cheese press, 114 
Cheesequake, 112 
Cherokee Indians, 109 
Cherry Hill, 7 
Chester, 30 
Chests, 18, 100, 169 
Children’s games, 54 

Christmas: celebrations, 133, 151, 164; or¬ 
naments, 54 

’’Christmas by Candlelight” (celebration), 
121 

Churches, 42, 163; minutes, 113; models of 
(Ukrainian), 159; Moravian, 54; records 
of, 156; Victorian, 84 
Chustyna (Ukrainian), 159 
Cider: mill, 62.; presses, 156 
"Cider Season Celebration,” 121 
Cigar-store Indians, 95, 114 
Cinnaminson, 111 
Civil War, 54 


Clacker, 147 
Clam baskets, 79 

Clamming: equipment, 9, 112, 158; photo¬ 
graphs of, 95; rakes, 8, 79, 84; tools, 42 
Clarke (Thomas) House, 155 
Clinton, 31 

Clinton’s Headquarters, learning package 
about, 20 

Clipper ships, models of, 131 

Clocks, 54; clock case, 21; clockworks, 21 

Closter, 1 

Cloth, 114; homespun, 87 
Clothing, 13, 52, 65, 79, 83, 86, 92, 101, 
124; homespun, 40, 96, 100; Indian, 112; 
linsey-woolsey, 119; Quaker, 8, 157 
Coal shuttle, 122 
Collingswood, 32 
Collins, Ralph (folk artist), 112 
Colonial period: architecture, 30; boats, 
half-models of, 6; furniture, 28; houses, 
photographs of, 91 
Columbus, 5 
Comb, flax, 120 
Communion set, 168 
Company town, 137 
Concertina (musical instruments), 28 
Condi family, cookhouse of, 83 
Conferences, 106 

Conklin, Lloyd (decoy carver), 112 
Conover Farm, learning package about, 20 
Convent, 99 

Cook College (Rutgers University), 140 
Cookbooks, 23, 60, 107, 146 
Cookhouse, 83, 92 

Cooking: Colonial, 74; demonstrations, 100, 
121, 171; implements, 89; open-hearth, 
7, 26, 28, 40, 41, 47; open-hearth, de¬ 
monstrations of, 164; utensils, 3, 34, 72, 
92, 169. See also Food, recipes 
Cooper chair factory, 112; account book, 

15 

Cooper chairs, 16; manuscript lecture on, 

16 

Coopering: shop, 31; shop (reconstructed), 
102 

Corrections facility, juvenile, 106 
Corn: boils, 128; crib, 8, 92; huskers, 156; 
sheller, 72 

Costumes, 60; exhibits of, 155; Hungarian, 
71; Lenape, 109; Sand Hill Indian, 103; 
Ukrainian, 159 
Covenhoven House, 95 
Coverlets, 18, 19, 28, 37, 40, 46, 47, 58, 76, 
89, 92, 95, 99, 112, 113, 114, 118, 119, 





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120, 123, 124, 128, 135, 153, 154, 156, 
157, 164, 167, 169, 170, 171; by Mary 
Fisher, 150; jacquard, 6, 13, 46, 98; 
linsey-woolsey, 52; overshot, 21; sig¬ 
nature, 67 

Coxe, Dr. John Redmond, family of, 13 

Crab Island, 84 

Crabbing skiff, 158 

Cradles, 7, 80; hooded, 120 

Craft days, 31, 100 

Crafts, 41; demonstrations of, 59, 121, 151, 
155, 156; displays of, 80; fairs, 83; im¬ 
plements, 89; Indian, 109; Indian, de¬ 
monstrations of, 132, photographs of, 3; 
craftsmen, 38; craftsmen, interviews 
with, 104. See also names of specific 
crafts, e.g. Carpentry, Blacksmithing, 
etc. 

Crafts, Museum of Early Trades and, 102 
Craftsmen of Colonial America (book), 100 
Craig House, 34 

Cranberry industry: bog operator, account 
books of, 119; picking, photographs of, 
119; scoops, 112; sorters, 80; thesis 
about, 119; tools, 42 
Cranbury, 35 

Crane, Betsey, diary of, 63 

Crane (Israel) House, 74 

Cranmer, William H. (decoy carver), 84 

Crewel work, 95 

Crochet, 88 

Crops, 86 

Crosses: Greek Orthodox, 78; Methodist, 
150; Ukrainian Orthodox, 159 
Crosswicks, chest made in, 18 
Cultivators, 37, 85 
Culver’s Lake, 36 

Cumberland County, 56, 111; Millville, 160, 
170; Vineland, 165 

Cupboards, 76, 100; corner, 87; Dutch, 112; 

Hackensack, 40, 114 
Cups, love-feast, 150 
Cures, 72 

Customs, 141; Pine Barrens, 23 
Cutters: fodder, 80; root crop, 80 
Cymbaly (Ukrainian musical instrument), 
159 

The D and R Canal (film), 110 
Daguerreotypes, 28 

Dairying: milk room, 31; milk separator, 76 
Dancing: descriptions of, 6; garters (In¬ 
dian), 109; groups (Russian), 136; Hun¬ 
garian, 70; regalia (Indian), 109 


David, Thomas (decoy carver), 114 
Daybooks, 37, 67; artisan’s, 120; doctor’s, 
80; merchant’s, 120 
Deats plow, 72, 140 
Decoy carving, 170; tools, 112 
Decoys, 28, 42, 84, 95, 99, 107, 112, 114, 
117, 118, 119, 131, 157, 158; film about, 
106, 110; stick-up, 8; photographs of, 59 
Deeds, 76 

Delaware Bay oyster boats, film about, 
106, 110, 111 

Delaware Indians. See Indians, Lenape In¬ 
dians 

Delaware Indian Big House: model of, 4; 
photographs of, 112 

’’Delaware Indian Symposium” (conference), 
4 

Delaware Indian Symposium, A (book), 4 
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Rail¬ 
road, photographs of, 154 
Delaware Valley: chairs, 112; furniture, 
135; ladderback chair, 65 
"Delaware Water Gap” (painting), 112 
Demaree. See also Demarest 
Demaree (Abram) Homestead, 1 
Demarest, Margaret Van Wagoner (folk 
artist), 13 

Demarest House, 13, 17 
Demonstrations: blacksmithing, 38, 39, 86, 
162; candlemaking, 74; contemporary 
craftsmen, 38; cooking, 100, 121, 171; 
cooking (open-hearth), 41, 74, 164; 

crafts, 59, 121, 151, 155, 156; crafts 
(Indian), 132; farm activities, 100; 
horse-powered agricultural equipment, 
86; military, 121; quilting, 74; rug¬ 
hooking, 74; slate-cutting, 38; soap¬ 
making, 156; spinning, 128, 164, 171; 

tinsmithing, 39; tin-stencilling, 74; 
tools, 153; weaving, 38, 128, 156, 164; 
woodworking, 39. See also Shows, Work¬ 
shops 

"Design Down Jersey" (exhibition), 59 
Dewey (Oklahoma), 4 
Dey family Bible, 40 

Diaries, 6, 28, 37, 61, 72, 84, 95, 98, 107, 
113, 114, 119, 137, 151, 152, 156, 160; 
minister’s, 150; of a school teacher in 
Pine Barrens, 23 

Dictionary, Jersey Dutch (language), 124 
Diet, 86 

Dioramas, Indian scenes, 99 
Dipper, water, 122 
Dishes, 76, 87 











79 


Dissertations, 139 

Doctors (physicians): daybook of, 80; equip¬ 
ment of, 65, 76; journal of, 80; office 
of, 44 

Dog treadmill, 80 

Dolls: 37, 46, 65, 73, 95, 99, 114, 123; 

exhibits, 35; Indian, 112; paper, 54 
Door, painted, 144 
Dorer (Harry) Collection, 115 
Douglass College (Rutgers University), 141 
Drawings, 133; land survey, 112 
Dreams (Indian), 109 
Dresses, 52 
Drew University, 108 
Drums (Indian), 109 
Drumsticks (Indian), 112 
Dryers: carved apple, 6; seed corn, 76 
DuBois (John) Maritime Collection, 37 
DuBois, Teunis (silversmith), account book 
of, 95 

Duck decoys. See Decoys 
Duck hunting, 28 

Dugout canoes (boat), 4, 13, 107, 112 
Dulcimers, 6, 28 
Durand, Asher B., 41 
Durand, Henry, 41 

Dutch: architecture, 13, 95, 130; barns, 1, 
44, 86, 172; cupboard, 112; farmhouses, 
1, 17, 38, 44, 45, 52, 83, 86, 169; farm¬ 
houses, photographs of, 91; houses, 123, 
147, 162, 163, 164; houses, film about, 
110; houses, photographs of, 99; houses, 
photographs and prints of, 139; houses, 
photographs and slides of, 161; kasten, 
51, 112, 123, 135, 169; ovens, 29; spoon 
racks, 13, 112 

Dutch Reformed Church, minister’s house, 
121 

Early American period, architecture, 30 
Early National period: artifacts, 74; boats, 
half-models of, 6 
Earthenware, 23, 120; Indian, 112 
East Brunswick, 43 
East Windsor, 61 

Easter-egg decorating (Hungarian), 71 
Eastern National Park and Monument As¬ 
sociation, 100 

Eastern Woodland Indians, 109 

Eatontown, 45 

Eel pots, 119 

Effigy faces (Indian), 4 

Effigy figures (Indian), 112 

Egerton, Matthew (furniture maker), 13, 21 


Egerton, Matthew, Jr., 21 
Elevators, grain, 80 
Elizabeth, 19, 148 
Ely, Will, 97 
Ely grist mill, 130 

Embroidery, 16, 60, 79, 88, 89, 137, 151, 
164; bookmarks, 6; Hungarian, 71; In¬ 
dian, 109; on silk, 144; pictures, 61, 100 
English: architecture, 95; fraktur, 112; 

yeoman’s house, 18 
Engravings, 76; wood, 107 
Equipment. See specific activity, e.g. , 
Agriculture, Fishing, Mining, etc . 

Essex County: Belleville, 11; Cedar Grove, 
29; Glen Ridge, 53; Livingston, 83; 
Maplewood, 41; Millburn, 91; Montclair, 
74, 97; Newark, 107, 114, 115, 142, 143; 
Short Hills, 91; South Orange 4 
Estate inventories. See Inventories, estate 
Ethnic groups, 107; associations, meetings 
of, 3; celebrations, 133; cooking, 3; 
folklore, 141; games, 3; newspapers, 
115, 125; organizations, 77; recipes, 
137; resources, 14; traditions, 115, 143. 
See also names of specific ethnic 

groups, e.g. Hungarians, Italians, etc . 
Ethnic History Program, 106 
Ethnic Survey for New Jersey (WPA), 104 
Ethnicity, 56 

Events, local, photographs of, 72 
Evil eye (Jewish), 75 

”An Examination of Factors Causing the 
Development of Temples in New Bruns¬ 
wick,” 75 

Exhibitions, 144; sheep-to-shawl, 92 
Exhibits, 106; archeology, 112; ar¬ 
chitecture, 112; costume, 155; dolls, 35; 
folk painting, 114; folk sculpture, 114; 
glassmaking, 170; glassware, 35; ice 
harvesting, 151; Indian, 112; needle¬ 
work, 155; quilt, 35, 43; traveling, 112; 
Ukrainian, 112; woodcarving, 43. See 
also Shows 

Factories: glass, 170; photographs of, 37 
Fahrenstock quilt, 18 
Fair Lawn, 52 

Fairs, 43; colonial, 100; country, 163 
Fall festival, 164 
Family papers, 52, 130 
Famous Tiller Sharks (film), 110 
Far Hills, 147 

Fare You Well Old House (film), 110 
Farming: activities, demonstrations of, 









80 


100; books, 72; equipment, parts 
manuals for, 86; farmhouses, 5, 7, 20, 
28, 70, 86, 89, 92, 171; farmhouses, 
Colonial, 34; farmhouses, Dutch, 1, 38, 
44, 45, 52, 83, 169; farmhouses, Dutch, 
photographs of, 91; farmhouses, New 
England, 135; farmhouses, patterned 
brick, 58; farm life, diary description 
of, 63; journals, 52, 88, 107, 139; mar¬ 
kets, 39; methods, oral history of, 70; 
occupations, slides of, 92; practices, 
descriptions of, 154; purchases, pro¬ 
missory notes and receipts of, 68; 
shows, 36. See also Agriculture 
Farmingdale, 39 

Farms, 7, 49, 52, 63, 70, 86; photographs 
of, 52 

Farriers, 86; See also Blacksmithing 
Federal period, 28; architecture, 128; 
church, 163; farmhouses, 7; furnishings, 
131; houses, 88 

Fenwick (John), painting of home of, 145 
Ferry boat, replica of, 47 
Festival of American Folklife, 104, 106, 
111 

Festivals: Americana Day, 1; Apple, 80, 
156; Big Sea Day, 152; Bottle Hill Day, 
87; country, photographs of, 95; craft 
days, 100; Delaware Indian Big House 
Ceremony, 4; ethnic, 56; fairs, 43; fall, 
164; Great Falls, 126; harvest, 31, 92; 
May Day, 3; New Jersey Folk, 141; Old 
Timers’ Day, 50; peach, 128; Russian, 
136; St. Nicholas Day, 52; Salt Water 
Day, photographs of, 79; strawberry, 2, 
128 

Fiddling, description of, 6 
Field records, archeological, 112 
Fieldsboro, 117 
Figurehead, ship's, 37, 158 
Figurine, bird, 112 
Films, 106, 110, 111 
Finesville, 112 

Fire fighting, 26; photographs of, 114; fire 
companies, minute books, 114; fire 
companies, photographs of, 18; fire¬ 
men’s parades, pictures of, 32 
Firearms, 47, 54, 69, 124, 145, 156; mus¬ 
kets, 48; rifles, 46 
Fireback, 18 

Fireplaces, 54; jambless, 52; walk-in, 76 
Fischer, Charles Henry (folk artist), 107 
Fisher, Mary, coverlet by, 151 
Fishhooks (Indian), 112 


Fishing, 79; equipment, 4, 6, 9, 42, 103, 
158; lectures and slide shows about, 
153; oral history interview about, 84; 
photographs of, 23, 158; pound, 119; 
surf, photographs of, 84 
Flails, 52, 112, 156 
Flasks, 46 

Flax, 147; brake, 120; spinning, 26; spinning 
wheels, 76 
Flemington, 72 
Floats (glass), 6 
Flutes, 28; Indian, 109 
Fodder cutters, 80 

Folk art (American), reproductions of, 99. 
See also Paintings, Portraits, Land¬ 
scapes, Seascapes 

Folk Artists in Education Program, 111 
Folk Arts Program, 111 
Folk music: about canals, 110; Pinelands, 
119. See also Music, Songs 
Folklife in New Jersey: An Annotated Bib¬ 

liography , 106 
Folklife Program, 106 
Folklore, New Jersey, card file on, 115 
The Folklore and Folklife of New Jersey , 

106 

Folklore Society, New Jersey, 105 
Food: processing and preserving equipment, 
3; recipes (ethnic), 137; utensils, 6, 17, 
46, 54, 95, 100, 164; utensils (Indian), 4. 
See also Cooking, Recipes 
’’For Bread and Butter: The 1913 Paterson 
Silk Strike,” 3 
Force (Thomas) House, 83 
Ford Mansion, 100 
Forge tools, 154 
Forges, 52, 93 
Fort Lee, 48 

Foster, Mary Jane (folk artist), 112 
Foundries, 64 
Foundry tools, 22 

Fraktur, 40, 95, 107, 114, 120; English, 112 
Francis Helen , ship's log book of the, 6 
Franklin, 50 
Franklin Park, 51 
Freehold, 34, 95 
French: cemetery, 17; dolls, 95 
French and Indian War, 120 
”A Friendly Legacy” (exhibit), 59 
Friends, Society of (Quakers), 26, 59; arti¬ 
facts, 59; clothing, 8; meeting houses, 
5, 59; meeting house, painting of a, 8; 
Susan Waters (Quaker artist), 18. See 
also Quakers 












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Friesians, 3 
Furnace, iron, 10 

Furnishings, 29, 121, 139, 162; Colonial, 
131; Federal period, 131; photographs 
of, 59; Shaker, 49; Victorian, 1 
Furniture, 54, 86, 153, 155; Colonial, 26, 
28; country, 7, 39, 69, 95, 96, 114, 120, 
124, 160, 164; Delaware Valley, 135; 
Early American, 76; kitchen, 28; 
nineteenth-century, 26; Quaker, 157; 
Victorian, 124 

Gaffs, 158 

Galicians (Spaniards), audiotapes of, 104 
Games, 54, 86, 141; bocci, 3; children's, 6; 
Indian, 112 

Gardens, 47; herb, 33, 41, 76; Italian, 3; 
kitchen, 7; plow, 100; seashore, 9; tools, 
3, 84; vegetable, 86 
Garretson family, 52 
Garters, dance (Indian), 109 
General store manager, account book of, 
119 

Georgian period: architecture, 163; houses, 
40, 45, 60 

Germans, 3, 107; audiotapes of, 104; frak- 
tur, 40; dolls, 95 
Ghosts of the Pines (film), 110 
Gibbon House, 37 

Gibqrson, Gary (decoy carver), 117, 131 
Giffordtown Schoolhouse Museum, 157 
Gilder House, 18 

Glassmaking: exhibits, 170; glass, 10, 26, 
32, 37, 54, 112, 131, 145, 165, 170, 171; 
glass blowing tools, 8, 25, 37, 145; glass 
bottles, 52; glass factory, 170; glass in¬ 
dustry, photographs and manuscripts of, 
170; glassware, 156; glassware, exhibits 
of, 35 

Glen Ridge, 53 

Gloucester County: Harrison Township, 59; 
Mullica Hill, 59; Sewell, 67; Washington 
Township, 67; Woodbury, 54 
"Goddess Flora" (watercolor), 13 
Gordon family papers, 130 
Gothic period: chapel, 85; houses, 49 
Grain elevators, 80 
Granary, 37 

Grant (Alexander) House, 145 
Graphics, 88 

Grave offerings (Indian), 4 
Great Egg Habor River, 6 
Great Falls Festival, 126 


Great Plains Indian artifacts, 97 
Greek Orthodox cross, 78 
Greek Revival period houses, 72 
Green Corn Ceremony (Indian), 132 
Greenwich, 37 

Grinders, sharpening, 119; grinding stone 
(Indian), 99; grinding wheel, 52 
Gristmills: oil painting of, 76; grist wheel, 
76 

"Growth and Migrations of the Jewish 
Community of New Brunswick" (paper), 
75 

Guatemala, 132 

Guidotti, Pasquale (carver), 112 
Gulick, Henry T. (folk painter), 95, 97 
Gulick House, 163 
Gun stocks, hardcarved, 47 

Hackensack, 14, 112; chairs, 16; cupboards, 
40, 114 

Hackensack River Valley, 13; Dutch 
houses, film about, 110 
Haddon Heights, 57 
Haddon Township, 25 
Haddonfield, 73 
Haledon, 3 
Hamburg, 122 

Hamilton Township Historical Society, 76 
Hammonton, 10 
Hancock's Bridge, 58 
Hardenbergh, G. R. (artist), 119 
Hardyston, 122 

Haring, Betsy, quilt made by, 13 
Harness-making: equipment, 140; shop 
(reconstructed), 102; tools, 29 
Harrison Township, 59 
Harrows, 7 

Harvest festivals, 92; jubilee, 31 
Hatmaking: hat finisher, apprenticeship, 
papers of, 114; hat makers tools, 3 
Hay forks, 6, 119, 151, 154 
Heckles, 72 
Hedden, Obadiah, 41 
Hendrickson, Daniel (folk artist), 144 
"The Henry Fischer Homestead" (folk 
painting), 107 

"Henry Thomas Gulick: New Jersey's 
Native Painter" (catalog), 97 
Herbal recipes, 107 

Heroes, American Revolution, slide show 
about, 122 

Hessian soldier, whirligig of a, 95 
Hibernia, 66 





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Hicks, Edward (folk artist), 144 
High Bridge, 64 
High chair, children’s, 167 
Highlands, 158 
Hightstown, 61 

Hill (Dr. David B.) Collection, 69 
Hillside, 62 

Hines (H. J.) Collection, 145 
Hispanic-American culture, film about, 110 
Historic American Building Survey, 104, 
115 

Historic sites, 22, national, 21, 29, 30, 76; 
state, 21, 53, 76; state-owned, 34, 47, 
58, 73, 121, 135; survey of, 14 
"A History of Belleville" (MS), 11 
Hitchcock chairs, 157 
Ho-Ho-Kus, 60 

"Hoagland Farms" (painting), 112 
Hoagland’s (Irving) walking plow, 140 
Hoes (Indian), 4 
Holmdel, 68, 86, 130 

Holmes family, photographs and papers of, 
86 

Holmes (John) House, 28 
Holmes-Hendrickson House, 95; learning 
package about, 20 
Home for the Aged (Jewish), 75 
Homes, photographs of, 37 
Homespuns, 95, 99; blankets, 6, 37, 68, 83, 
100, 112, 152; cloth, 87; clothing, 40, 
96, 100; coverlets, 89; sheets, 72, 112, 
135; tablecloth, 113 
Honeyman, Peter N. (artist), 120 
Hooks: boat, 158; bog, 119; reap, 112 
Hopewell, 69 

Hopper, John A., tavern of, 13 
Horse shows, 36 
Horse treadmill, 80 
Horseshoes, 76; marsh, 37, 119 
Houses (historic), 2, 38, 54; Dutch, 110, 
123, 139, 147, 161, 162, 163, 164; pat¬ 
terned ended, 110; photographs of, 6, 8, 
53, 57, 83, 91, 94, 126, 139, 161; salt- 
box, 157; slides of, 149; stone, survey 
of, 14 

Hudson County: Kearny, 76 
Hudson Valley: chairs, 52; kasten , 52, 65 
"Hungarian Folk Art" (exhibition), 144 
Hungarians, 71 
Hunter-Lawrence House, 54 
Hunterdon County: Califon, 24; Clinton, 
31; Flemington, 72; High Bridge, 64; 
Lambertville, 88; Titusville, 47, 70 


Hunting: bows and arrows, 46; boats and 
decoys, 8; duck, 42; equipment, 4, 6, 
103; implements, 54, 156; rifles, 46; 
traps, 72; wildfowl, 28 

Hutsul (Ukrainian): costumes, 159; pottery, 
159 

Hymnals, 103 

Ice boats, glass plate negatives of, 95 

Ice fishing tools, 86 

Ice harvesting: equipment, 81; exhibit, 151; 
tools, 80, 112, 151 

Ice picks, 151 

Icons: Russian, 112, 136; Ukrainian 

Orthodox, 159 

Illuminated books (Ukrainian), 159 

"Images of New Jersey Folklife" (exhibit), 
106 

Immigrants: eastern European, 137; oral 
history interviews with, 56, 99, 106 

Implements. See names of specific activi¬ 
ty, e.g. , Agricultural, Mining, Fishing, 
etc . 

In the Barnegat Bay Tradition (film), 106, 
110 

Independence Day celebrations, 151 

Indians, 31, 109; arrowheads, 76; arrows, 
46; artifacts, 12, 28, 35, 43, 54, 69, 81, 
83, 97, 108, 109, 132, 154, 161; arti¬ 
facts, exhibit of, 112; ax-heads, 129; 
axes, 99; baskets, 112; bead work, 109; 
beliefs, 109; bowls, 109; bows, 46; bun¬ 
dles, 109; carving, 109; clothing, 112; 
craftwork, 109; dance garters, 109; 
dance regalia, 109; dioramas of, 99; 
dolls, 112; dreams, 109; dugouts (boats), 
4, 13, 112; effigy figures, 112; em¬ 
broidery, 109; exhibit about, 112; fish¬ 
ing hooks, 6, 112; games, 112; grave of¬ 
ferings, 4; handicrafts, 69; house pat¬ 
terns, 4; hunting charms, 109; imple¬ 
ments, 134, 139; interviews with, 109, 
112; knives, 109; ladles, 109; lectures 
on, 149; lithic material, 149; medicinal 
practices, 109; musical instruments, 
109, 112; necklaces, 109; net sinkers, 
112; netting, 112; petroglyphs, 4; pot¬ 
tery, 46, 55, 99, 112, 119, 125, 126, 153, 
160; projectile points, 55, 99, 119, 129, 
145, 147; relics, 69; sites, survey of, 
112, 149; spears, 46; spoons, 109; stones 
(grinding), 99; tools, 76, 126, 145; tribal 
rolls, 109. See also Delaware, Lenape 







83 


Indian Anne, baskets attributed to, 80 
"Indian Artifacts" (exhibition), 112 
Indian site survey (WPA), 112 
Industrial artifacts, 26 
Institute of Jazz Studies (Rutgers Univer¬ 
sity), 142 

Inventories, 37; blacksmith's, 40; business, 
95, 152, 153; estate, 87, 95, 107, 153, 
156 

Irish, ethnic organizations, 77 
Iron industry, 116; artifacts, 64; firebacks, 
18; foundries, 31; iron pigs, 154; iron 
plantation, 134; ironworks, 39; tools, 
22, 151, 134 
Iron plows, 39 
Ironstone house, 67 
Issei, Nisei, Sansei (film), 110 
Italians, 107; audio tape of, 104; bocci 
(game), 3; garden, 3; ethnic organi¬ 
zations, 77; garden, 3; neighborhood, 
film about, 110; photographs of, 98; 
railroad workers, photographs of, 78; 
wall paintings, 133; woodcarving, 112 
Ivy Point, 145 

Jacobus House, 29 

Jamesburg Training School for Boys, 106 
Japanese, audiotapes of, 104; film about, 
110 

Jazz, 142 

Jefferson, Thomas, portrait on tavern sign, 
13 

Jersey Devil: interview about, 32; film 
about, 110 

Jersey Dutch (language) dictionary, 124 
Jeweler’s apprenticeship papers, 114 
Jewish-American folklife, conference on, 
106 

Jewish Museum (New York City), 21 
"Jewish Population Survey of New Bruns¬ 
wick" (paper), 75 
Jews, 75 

"Jews in Colonial New Brunswick" (paper), 
75 

Johnson, Lloyd (decoy carver), 112 
Johnson Public Library, 13 
"The Johnston Mill" (painting), 107 
Journals, 125, 134, 137, 156; business, 88; 
doctor’s, 80; farm, 52, 88, 107, 139; 
merchant’s, 113 
Jugs, stoneware, 61 

Kas (plural, kasten ), 13, 40, 52, 112, 135; 
Dutch, 123, 169; Hudson Valley, 52, 65 


Keansburg Steamboat Company, workshop 
of, 79 
Kearny, 77 

Kearny Plantation, 79 
Kenilworth, 78 
Keyport, 79 

Kiev, costumes and embroidery from, 159 
Kiln (lime), 31 

Kitchens, 37, 73; country 169; detached, 
135; implements, 58; utensils, 65; 128, 
135, 165 

Knives, oyster shucking, 112 
Kraft, Herbert C. (archeologist), 4 
Kylymy (Ukrainian), 159 

Labor museum, 3 

Lace, 16, 21, 60, 99, 122, 126, 147. See also 
Tatting 

Lace-making equipment, 99 
Ladderback chairs, 40, 52, 58, 65, 160, 167, 
169 

Ladles (Indian), 109 
Lake Hopatcong, 81 
Lambert Castle, 125 
Lambert Mills (silk), 125 
Lambertville, 88 

Lambertville Historical Society, 88 
Lamp workers, 170 
Lamps, miner’s, 66 
Land ceremony (Indian), 132 
Land survey, drawings, 112 
Landscapes, 61, 139, 120 
Landing, 81 

Lanning, John (chairmaking), 112 
Laurel Springs, 171 
Leathermaking tools, 35, 156 
Ledgers, 28; artisans, 120; business, 116; 
merchants, 120; mills, 154; stores, 98, 
154 

Lee, James (local historian), 106 
Legends, 6, 42, 61, 79, 107 
Lejambre, Luciene, 18 
Lenape (Indians), 109, 132; artifacts, 97; 
conference on, 106; costumes, 109. See 
also Indians 

"Lenape Indians: Retrospect and Prospect" 
(conference), 4 
Letters, 98, 125 
Leupp, Peter (clockmaker), 21 
"Life and Times in Silk City," (exhibit), 3 
Life-saving stations, photographs of, 9, 158 
Light houses, 9; photographs of, 9; light 
house keepers logs and records, 158 
Lighting: devices, 31, 50; fixtures, 92 







84 


Lincoln (Abraham), wood carving of, 112 
Lincroft, 20, 86 
Linens, 147; sheets, 37, 167 
Linsey-woolsey coverlets, 52 
Linwood, 55 

Lithic materials (Indian), 149 
Lithographs, 73, 126 
Lithuanian ethnic organizations, 77 
Little Silver, 82 
Livingston, 83 

Local events, photographs of, 72 

Locksmith's tools, 46 

Log cabins, 36, 101; Swedish, 37, 58 

Logging: tools, 31; log pullers, 156 

Logs, 156; ship's, 6 

Long Beach Island, 84 

Long Branch, 85 

Long Pond ironworks, folk painting of, 134 
Long Valley, 168 

Longstreet family, papers and photographs 
of, 86 

Looms, 40, 92, 107, 113 
Love feasts, 150; references to, 6 
Lovetts nursery, sign from 82 
Lumber industry: equipment, 81; lumber 
hauler, 52 

Lunette, steamboat, 95 

MacCulloch Hall, 27 

McCully (Joseph) pottery, 112 

Machinery, 102; farm 70 

Madison, 87, 102, 108 

Mallets, wooden, 61 

Maplewood, 41 

Maps, 26 

Marbles, clay, 55 

Marine exhibit, 37, 153 

Maritime activities, 42; traditions, 6, 79 

Markets, farm, 39 

Marlpit Hall, 95; learning package about, 
20 

Marshall, James Wilson, 88 
Mata wan, 156 

Mathis (Senator Thomas) quilt, 119 
Matzah covers (Jewish), 75 
May Day outings, 3 
"May in Montgomery" (fair), 163 
Medford, 80, 132 
Medford Historical Society, 80 
Medicine, folk, 95, 148; ethnic, 137; herbal 
recipes, 107; Indian, 109; remedies, 23. 
See also Cures 

Meeting houses (Quaker): painting of, 8; 
slides of, 59 


Melodeon (musical instrument), 6, 37 
Memoirs, 83, 152, 156, 163 
Memorial Day, 87 

Memories of Washington Township , 67 

Menhaden factory, photographs of, 84 
Mercer County: Crosswicks, 18; East Wind¬ 
sor, 61; Hightstown, 61; Hopewell, 69; 
Pennington, 150; Princeton, 65, 133, 
155; Trenton, 76, 104, 106, 110, 111, 
112 , 120 

Merchants: daybooks, 120; journals, 113; 
ledgers, 120 

Methodists: history, 150; newspapers, 150 
Mexico, 132 

Mickle family papers, 25 
Middle East, 108 
Middlesex, 90 

Middlesex County, 106; Cranbury, 35; East 
Brunswick, 43; Franklin Park, 51; Mata- 
wan, 156; Middlesex, 90; Monroe, 96; 
New Brunswick, 21, 75, 105, 139, 140, 
144; Old Bridge, 156; Piscataway, 44; 
Plainsboro, 129; South Plainfield, 149 
Middletown, 97 

Migrants, interviews with, 106 

Military: artifacts, 26; demonstrations, 121 

Mill center, 163 

Millbrook, 38 

Millburn, 91 

Miller (Major Luke), estate inventory of, 87 
Mill stones, 80; Indian, 4 
Mills, 80, 151; cider, 62; grist, 2, 10, 86, 
130; grist, painting of, 76; ledger books, 
154; saw, 131; water-powered, 31; 
women workers in, 3 
Millstone, 93 
Millstone Valley, 147 
Millville, 160, 170 
Minerals, 50 

Mining, 66; cedar shingle, 28; engine house 
(replica), 50; equipment, 50, 66; miners, 
50; photographs of, 50; slide show 
about, 66 

Minister's diaries, 150 

Minute books: church, 113; fire company's, 
114 

Mirrors, 100 

Model, horse-drawn cart and driver, 144 
Moldboard plows, 140 
Molds: bullet, 46; cooky, 17 
"Molly Pitcher at the Battle of Monmouth" 
(painting), 120 
Monmouth Beach, 94 

Monmouth County, 97; Allentown, 2; 





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Eatontown, 45; Farmingdale, 39; Free¬ 
hold, 34, 95; Highlands, 158; Holmdel, 
68, 86, 130; Keyport, 79; Lincroft, 20, 
86; Little Silver, 82; Long Branch, 85; 
Monmouth Beach, 94; Neptune, 103; 
Port Monmouth, 153; Shrewsbury, 146; 
Spring Lake, 152; Upper Freehold, 2 
Monroe, 96 

Montclair, 74, 97, 110 

Montgomery, 163 

Montville, Dutch houses, 99 

Morgan, Ed (folk painter), 97, 134 

Morgan, James (potter), 112 

Moore, Grace (school teacher), diary of, 23 

Moravian church, 37 

Morris Canal, 106 

Morris County: Chester, 30; Hibernia, 66; 
Long Valley, 168; Madison, 87, 102, 108; 
Morristown, 27, 49, 98, 99, 100, 151; 
New Providence, 113; Washington 
Township, 168 
Morris Green, 108 
Morristown, 27, 49, 98, 99, 100, 151 
Mortar: wooden, 61; and pestle, 120, 147 
Mother Leed’s Thirteenth Child (film), 110 
Mt. Holly, 22, 101 
Mourning pictures, 144, 151 
Mullica Hill, 59 

Music, 141; box, 37; broadsides, 139; 

descriptions of, 6; instrumental, 143 
Musical instruments, 143; accordion, 6; 
African, 142; banduras (Ukrainian), 159; 
concertinas, 28; cymbaly (Ukrainian), 
159; drums (Indian^ 109; drumsticks, 
112; dulcimers, 6, 28; flutes, 4, 28, 109; 
melodeon, 6, 37; organ, 167; rattles (In¬ 
dian), 109, 112; trembity (Ukrainian), 
159; violins, 6, 28; whistles, 122, 109; 
zithers, 6, 21 
Myths, 42, 107, 139 

Name-day celebrations (Russian), 136 
Narratives, personal experience, 61 
National Endowment for the Arts, 106 
National Register of Historic Places, 5, 30, 
172. See also Historic sites: national 
Native-Americans. See Indians 
Navesink Light Station, 158 
Necklaces (Indian), 109 
Needlepoint, 147 

Needlework, 6, 112; exhibits of, 155 
Negatives, glass plate, 95 
Neptune, 103 
Net sinkers, 6, 112 


Nets, 153, 112 
Netting shuttle, 119 

New Brunswick, 13, 21, 75, 105, 110, 139, 
140, 144; architecture, 144 
New England: farmhouse, 135; ladderback 
chair, 65 

"New Jersey" (ship), 119 

New Jersey Folk Festival, 141 

New Jersey Folklore: A Statewide Journal , 

141 

New Jersey Folklore Archive, 141 
"New Jersey Indians" (exhibit), 112 
New Milford, 17 
New Providence, 113 
Newark, 107, 114, 115, 142, 143 
Newark College of Arts and Sciences (Rut¬ 
gers University), 143 
Newbold plow, 140 

Newspapers: ethnic, 125; Methodist, 150 
Newton, 154 
Noah’s ark, 21, 75 

Norwegian fisherman, interview with, 84 
Nutting, Wallace (furniture maker), 49 

Oakland, 162 

Oakland Historical Society, 162 
Occupations, photographs of, 115; tra¬ 
ditions, photographs of, 114 
Ocean City, 118 

Ocean County: Barnegat, 8, 9; Beach Ha¬ 
ven, 84; Toms River, 119; Tuckerton, 
157; West Creek, 42 

Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, 
103 

Ocean ville, 117 

Oklahoma, 112 

Old Bridge, 156 

Old French Cemetery, 17 

"Old Hewitt Iron Furnace" (painting), 97 

Old Timers’ Day, 50 

Open-hearth cooking, 26, 28, 40, 41; de¬ 
monstrations of, 74; utensils, 47 
Oradell, 17 

Oral histories, 3, 15, 18, 24, 32, 35, 36, 43, 
51, 53, 56, 57, 66, 70, 75, 79, 82, 83, 84, 
86, 87, 88, 89, 94, 95, 96, 99, 103, 106, 
109, 113, 115, 116, 119, 122, 124, 127, 
129, 131, 133, 134, 137, 142, 149, 158, 
161, 163, 168, 170 
Oral History Program, 106 
Out of the Past — A Pictorial History of 

Barnegat, New Jersey , 8 
Outbuildings, 92 
Outhouses, 8, 92 











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Ovens: beehive, 37, 52, 76; roasting, 120 
Ox roast, 133 

Oystering: baskets, 8, 79; boats, film 
about, 106, 110, 111; boats, photographs 
of, 37; equipment, 112, 158; oystermen, 
photographs of, 79; shuckers, interviews 
with, 104; tools, 42 

Pacific Northwest Indian artifacts, 97 
Pail, water, 122 

Paintings, 3, 6, 45, 81, 83, 88, 112, 119, 
125, 154, 156, 164; by itinerant artists, 
19; by Micah Williams, 125; exhibits, 
114; of buildings, 131; of canals, 27; of 
John Fenwick’s first home, 145; of Long 
Pond Ironworks, 134; of Quaker meeting 
house, 8; on cloth; oil, 53, 103; pastoral, 
18; portraits, 13, 17, 21, 32; Revolu¬ 
tionary War, 47; seascapes, 95; wall, 49; 
watercolor, 13. See also Portraits, 
Landscapes, Seascapes 
Parades: photographs of, 18, 57, 91; stu¬ 
dent, 133 
Paramus, 12 
Park Ridge, 124, 172 

Parker family homestead, photographs of, 
82 

Parlor furniture, 124 
Parsell, Oliver (furniture-maker), 21 
Parts manuals, farm equipment, 86 
Passaic, 71 

Passaic County: Haledon, 3; Passaic, 71; 
Paterson, 3, 125, 126, 127; Ringwood, 
116, 134; Wayne, 40, 169 
Pastels, 107; by Micah Williams, 125 
Paterson, 125, 126, 127; strike (1913), 3; 

work in silk industry, photographs of, 3 
’’Patriotic Observances,” 82 
Patterned brickwork, 58; film about, 110 
Patterson, William (folk artist), 145 
Peaches: baskets, 72; festivals, 128 
Peacock plow, 140 

Peahala Rod and Gun Club, register of the, 
84 

Peddlers, 147 
Pendants (Indian), 4 
Penn, Thomas, 160 
Penn, Richard, 160 
Pennington, 150 
Pennsauken, 128 

Pennsylvania: Bucks County, 40; Bushkill, 
38 

Performers (folk), audiotapes of, 104 
Personett House, 29 


Pestles (Indian), 4 
Peter’s Valley, 38 
Petroglyphs (Indian), 4 
Pewter, 17, 120, 155, 160 
Pharmacist, business records of a, 18 
Pharo, Jarvus, 42 
Philhower Collection, 139 
Photographs, 103, 125, 141. See also names 
of specific subjects 

Pictures: embroidered, 61, 100; jacquard 
silk, 126; made by phosphorescent min¬ 
eral granules, 50; mourning, 151; of 
fireman’s parades, 32 
Pillow cases, 68, 100 
Pin cushions, 95 

Pine Barrens: diary of a school teacher in 
the, 23; film about, 110 
Pinelands folksongs, 119 
Pins, 147 
Pipes, tobacco, 4 
Piscataway, 44 

Place-names: stories about, 79; WPA man¬ 
uscript (Monmouth County), 95 
Plainsboro, 129 
Planes, 119; carpenters, 113 
Plantation house, 40 
Planters, 37 
Pleasant Valley, 130 
Pleasures of Colonial Cooking , 107 
Pleaters, 21 

Plows, 37, 85, 95, 103, 126, 140; Deats, 72, 
140; garden, 100; hand, 165; iron, 39; 
moldboard, 7, 140; Newbold, 140; Pea¬ 
cock, 140; Stevens, 140; walking, 140 
Poinsett, Ann, sampler made by, 18 
Polish ethnic organizations, 77 
Politicians, interviews with, 106 
Pomona Hall, 26 
Port Monmouth, 153 
Port Republic, 131 

Portraits, 17, 21, 61, 65, 69, 79, 107, 120, 
145, 151; by Samuel Bell Waugh, 86; by 
Micah Williams, 95; by William Bonnell, 
72; of a sea captain’s son, 131; self, by 
Henry T. Gulick, 95; tin, 123; water- 
color, 112 

Portuguese ethnic organizations, 77 
Post cards, 103 

Post office, 67, 82; sign from a, 24 
Pottery, 32, 47, 73, 160; craft shops, 10; 
earthenware, 23; Indian, 4, 46, 55, 99, 
119, 153; pie dishes, 13; redware, 28, 
39, 46, 54; shards, 4; slipware, 13, 16, 
23, 24, 26; stoneware, 39, 45, 46, 54; 






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potteries, business records, 112; photo¬ 
graphs of, 112; potters, 170; potters, in¬ 
terviews with, 112; potter’s shops (re¬ 
constructed), 102; potter’s tools, 112. 
See also Earthenware, Redware, Slip- 
ware, Stoneware 

Pound fishing, interview about, 84 
Powder horns, 46, 69, 120, 125; scrimshaw, 
6 

Princeton, 65, 133, 155 
Princeton Battlefield Park, 155 
The Princeton Recollector , 133 
Printers, 170; apprenticeship papers, 114 
Prints, 64, 81, 112, 126; of historic houses, 
2 

Privateering, thesis on, 119 
Projectile points (Indian), 4, 55, 99, 103, 
119, 129, 145, 147. See also Arrowheads 
Public houses, 73, 123, 160. See also 
Taverns 
Puzzles, 46 

Pysanky (Ukrainian), 159 

Quakers: clothing, 157; furniture, 157, 
houses, 157. See also Friends, the Soc¬ 
iety of 

Quarry work, photographs of, 91 
Queen Anne period chairs, 52, 123 
Quilts, 16, 26, 28, 37, 39, 40, 42, 45, 52, 54, 
58, 60, 61, 65, 69, 72, 74, 76, 79, 80, 83, 
86, 89, 92, 95, 99, 100, 103, 107, 112, 
113, 114, 118, 120, 123, 124, 128, 134, 
137, 145, 146, 153, 154, 156, 160, 164, 
166, 167, 169, 170, 171; album, 88; ap¬ 
plique, 6, 13, 19, 23; autograph, 119; 
barn-raising, 125; bear’s claw, 125; Bi¬ 
centennial, 66, 82, 152; Centennial, 13; 
crazy, 21, 125; crib, 119; exhibitions, 
35, 43, 155; friendship, 8, 13, 18, 72, 87, 
107, 151; ’’hearts and gizzards,” 125; 
liberty, 119; log cabin, 98, 125; oak 
leaf, 125; patchwork, 6, 19, 21, 155; 
presentation, 23, 54; pieced, 23; quilt¬ 
ing, demonstrations of, 74; satin, 151; 
shows, 80; signature, 21, 82, 125; silk, 
3, 125; tumbling block, 98; union 

square, 125; web, 125 

Racks, 100 

Rahway Valley Railroad, 78 
Railbird boat, 37 
Railroad station, 67; sign, 82 
Railroad workers, photographs of, 78 
Rakes, 7, 16, 153; bull, 151; clam, 8, 79, 
84, 156; cranberry, 119 


Ramapo Mountain People, 97 
Ramsey, 123 

Ranlett, William (architect), 60 
Raritan Bay, 114 
Raritan Valley, 44 
Rattles (Indian), 109, 112 
Reapers, 140 

Recipes, 23, 61, 68, 72, 95, 133, 146; eth¬ 
nic, 3; family, 3; herbal, 107; medicinal, 
148. See also Food, Cooking 
Recreation: photographs of, 94; workers’ 
picnics, 3 

Redware, 28, 37, 39, 46, 54, 65, 69, 99, 
100, 112, 114, 119, 155, 156, 157, 164; 
bird figurine, 112 

Religion: camp meetings, 6; Free Church 
Movement, 39; love feasts, 6; Metho¬ 
dists, 150; religious activities (Rus¬ 
sians), 136; religious artifacts (Indian), 
4; religious celebrations, 36; thesis on, 
119; Ukrainian Orthodox Church, 159 
Remedies, 23 
Renape. See Lenape 
Rescue boats, photographs of, 8 
Resort community, 152 
Restoration, historic, lectures and slide 
shows on, 153 
Revell House, 33 

Revolutionary War, 40, 54, 58, 73, 135, 
166; artifacts, 47 
Rifles, 46 

Ringwood, 116, 134 

"Rites of Spring” (celebration), 121 

River Edge, 13 

Robert, Margaret (folk artist), 112 

Rocky Hill, 135 

Roebling, 137 

Rolfs, Donald H., 170 

Romaine, Johanna B., portrait of, 13 

Root crop cutters, 80 

Roselle, 138 

Routers, 119 

Roy, George W., 154 

Rug-hooking, demonstrations of, 74 

Rugs, 113; handloomed, 42; rag, 88, 119 

Rural life, nineteenth century, 86 

Rushnyky (Ukrainian), 159 

Russians, 136; icons, 112 

Rutgers University Press, 106 

Rutherford, 89 

"Sacred to the Memory of Joanna Adams" 
(mourning picture), 144 
Saddler’s bench, 99 
Sailmaker’s tools, 107, 112 











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St. Nicholas Day, 52 
Salem, 145 

Salem County: Hancock’s Bridge, 58; 
Salem, 145 

Saltbox houses, 8, 42, 157 
Salt hay harvesting, 28; tools, 42. See also 
Horseshoes, march 

Salt hay rope maker, interview with, 104 
Salt Water Day, photographs of, 79 
Sample chairs, 52 

Samplers, 6, 8, 16, 19, 23, 28, 37, 46, 53, 
61, 65, 69, 72, 83, 86, 87, 95, 99, 100, 
107, 112, 114, 118, 119, 120, 123, 124, 
147, 153, 154, 155, 164, 166, 167; Cen¬ 
tennial, 148; made by Ann Poinsett, 18; 
made by Hester Schuyler, 18; made by 
Sarah Burtis, 18 
Sand Hill Indians, 103 
Sanderson, Henry (painter), 21 
Sandy Hook, 97 
Sanford (P. P.) pottery, 112 
"Santo Donato" (woodcarving), 112 
Saw mill: records, 131; industry, thesis on, 
119 

Saws, 156, 119; bow, 78; hay, 112; ice, 151; 

lumber, 80; two-handed cross-cut, 119 
Sawyer’s shop (reconstructed), 102 
Sayings, 148 

Schoolhouses, 44, 163; one-room, 9, 122, 
156; two-room, 157; furnishings, 74 
Schools, 111 

Schooners on the Bay (film), 106, 110, 111 
Scoop: blueberry, 119; cranberry, 112, 119 
Scottish ethnic organizations, 77 
Scrimshaw, 28, 95, 99, 107, 118; photo¬ 
graphs of, 59; powderhorn, 6 
Sculpture: exhibit, 114; of George 

Washington, 76 

Scythes, 6, 7, 37, 52, 69, 79, 80, 92, 95, 
119, 151, 156, 165 

Sea weed harvesting: interview about, 84; 

photographs of, 84 
Seabright skiffs, 107, 158 
Seabrook, Japanese community, film about, 
110 

Seafaring life, photographs of, 8 

Seascapes (paintings), 95 

Seigletown pottery, 112 

Senseman, Raphael (itinerant painter), 32 

Sermons, 114 

Settees, 120, 157 

Settle, 13 

Sewell, 67 

Shad fishermen, photographs of, 23 
Shadow boxes, 154 


Shafter, Richard, 11 
Shaker furnishings. 49 
"Sheep-to-Shawl" (exhibition), 92 
Sheet music, 156 
Sheets. See Bedding 
Shelves, hanging, 100 
Sheppard, Warren (artist), 119 
Shingle mining, photographs of, 28 
Shingle shaver, 76 

Shipbuilding, 79; drafting table, 76, 79; 

photographs of, 28; tools, 6, 28, 37 
Ships: logs, 8, 28, 107; models of, 6, 95, 
131; wheels, 158 
Shipwrecks, photographs of, 84 
Shoe last, 100 

Shoemaking: account book, 72; bench, 74; 
implements, 89; kit, 74; photographs of, 
3; shop, 31; tools, 26, 54, 61, 79, 100; 
trade sign, 125 
Shofars (Jewish), 75 

Shops: barber, 8; blacksmith’s, 7, 31, 36, 
44, 80, 93; butcher’s, 8; carpenter’s, 31, 
52; carriage-maker’s (reconstructed), 
102; cobbler's, 31; cooper's, 31; cooper’s 
(reconstructed), 102; harnessmaker’s 
(reconstructed), 102; potter’s (recon¬ 
structed), 102; sawyer’s (reconstructed), 
102; wheelwright’s, 36, 44, 93 
Short Hills, 91 

Shourds, Harry V. (decoy carver), 112 
Shovels, 151, 165 

Shows: antique, 163; farm, 36; horse, 36; 

quilt, 80, 155. See also Exhibits 
Shrewsbury, 146 
Sickles, 140, 147 

Signs: post office, 25; railroad station, 82 
Signs (trade), 13, 114; cigar-store Indians, 
46, 95; cobbler’s, 125; nursery, 82; ta¬ 
vern, 73; tin, 125. See also Cigar-store 
Indians 

Silhouettes, 69; paper, 120 
Silk industry, work in Paterson's, photo¬ 
graphs of, 3 

Silver (J. S.) Bros. & Co. (bottle company), 
35 

Silversmith’s account books, 95 
"Simple Pleasures" (exhibitions), 97 
Sims (Robert) Collection, 112 
Sinclair (Donald A.) Special Collections, 
139 

Sketches, 103; of houses, 6; of ships, 6; of a 
sloop, 160 

Skiff, Seabright, 107 
Slat-back chairs, 112, 120 
Slate-cutting, demonstrations of, 38 







89 


Slateford Farm, 38 

Sleds, 76, 114 

Sleigh, horse-drawn, 85 

A Slice of the Earth: The Story of the 

American Labor Museum (book), 3 

Slide shows, 122 

Slides: glass, 138; of farm occupations, 92; 
of historic houses, 2, 29; of meeting 
houses, 59; of mining, 66 
Slipware, 23 
Sloop, sketch of, 160 
Smith (H. B.) Machine Company, 22 
Smith (Hatfield) Collection, 21 
Smith ("Millionaire”) Collection, 154 
Smith (William J.) pottery, 112 
Smithsonian Institution, 104, 106, 111 
Smokehouse, 155, 163 

Sneakboxes (duck hunting boats), 28, 84, 
107, 118, 158; film about, 106, 110; 
model of, 8, 119 

Soapmaking, demonstrations of, 156 
Somers Point, 6 

Somerset County, 112; Belle Mead, 163; 
Bridgewater, 147; Millstone, 93; Mont¬ 
gomery, 163; Rocky Hill, 135; Somer¬ 
ville, 121, 147, 166; South Bound Brook, 
159 

Somerville, 121, 147, 166 

Songs, 154; about Paterson strike (1913), 3; 

New Jersey, 143 
Sorters, cranberry, 80, 119 
South Amboy, 112 
South Bound Brook, 159 
South Orange, 4 
South Plainfield, 149 
Southwest Indian artifacts, 97 
Sparta, 46 

Speck, Frank (anthropologist), 112 
Speech, plain (Quaker), 59 
Spinning: demonstrations, 128, 164, 171; 
equipment, 92, 100, 155, 169; flax, 26; 
implements, 31, 89; jennies, 99; wheels, 
21, 46, 69, 76, 87, 99, 107, 113, 120, 
123. See also Flax, Wool 
Spoke shaves, 78, 119 
Spoon racks, 13, 114; Dutch, 112 
Spoons (Indian), 109 
Sports, company events, 3 
Spray Beach, 84 
Spreaders, manure, 52 
Spring houses, 7, 63, 163 
Spring Lake, 152 

"Spring Landscape: View of Middletown and 
Sandy Hook" (painting), 97 


The Spy House, 153; learning package 
about, 20 

"Steamboat Johns Hopkins" (painting), 112 

Steamboats, photographs of, 79 

Stearns (Marshall) Collection, 142 

Steel industry, photographs of, 137 

Steinfeld, M., 75 

Sternboard, 158 

Steuben House, 13 

Stevens plow, 140 

Stirrer, apple-butter, 76 

Stone crusher, 31 

Stoneware, 24, 37, 39, 45, 46, 54, 65, 69, 
95, 96, 99, 100, 107, 112, 114, 119, 120, 
156, 164; crocks, 125; jugs, 61, 125, 126 
Stores (retail): ledgers, 98, 154; country, 
74; photographs of, 8 
Stories, 154 

Stoves: foot-warmer, 87; pot-bellied, 122 
Strawberry baskets, 16 
Strawberry festivals, 2, 128 
Street, Dr. C. S. (artist), 119 
Street, Robert (painter), 120 
Street scenes, photographs of, 72 
Strike, Paterson (1913), 3 
Styles family fraktur, 107 
Surveyor’s tools, 22, 154 
Sussex County, 114; Branchville, 36; Frank¬ 
lin, 50; Hamburg, 122; Hardyston, 122; 
Lake Hopatcong, 81; Landing, 81; New¬ 
ton, 154; Sparta, 46 
Swan (H. Kels) Collection, 47 
Swedish: log cabin, 37; plank house, 58 
Swedish-Finish architecture, 128 
Symbols: American Revolutionary, slide 
show about, 122; mourning, 144 

Tablecloths, 147; homespun, 113 
Tables, 21, 100; chair, 123; drafting, 79; 
gateleg, 120, 123; sawbuck, 76; tavern, 
120 

Tales, 15, 107, 139; legends, 42; myths, 42 
Tallit bags (Jewish), 75 
Tanner’s shop (reconstructed), 102 
Tatting, 42; courses in, 67 
Tavern sign, 73. See also Public House, 
Sighs (trade) 

Taylor-Wharton Foundry, 64 
Tether, 76 

Textile equipment, 95. See also Cloth, Clo¬ 
thing, Coverlets, Dress, Quilts, Samp¬ 
lers 

Theses, 139 

Thorn (Richard) pottery, 112 








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"Three Hundred Years of New Jersey 
Domestic Architecture” (exhibit), 112 
Threshers, 140 

Tinsmithing: demonstrations, 39; tinsmith, 
170; tinsmith’s bench, 157; tinsmith’s 
tools, 157 

Tin-stencilling, demonstrations of, 74 

Tintypes, 28 

Tinware, 72 

Titusville, 47, 70 

Toaster, 120 

Toms River, 119 

Tongs, ice, 151 

Tools, 34, 37, 79, 100, 102, 116, 123, 153, 
167, 168, 171; demonstrations of, 153; 
Indian, 145. See also specific crafts, 
e.g. Blacksmithing, Carpentry, Shoe¬ 
making, etc. 

Tours, house, 163 

Toustillolt, Col. Raymont, 82 

The Tow-Path Finder (newsletter), 27 

Townhouse, 167 

Toy barn, 61 

Toys, 6, 26, 46, 52, 54, 60, 65, 73, 98, 99, 
103, 122, 156 

Trade signs. See Signs (trade) 

Traps, 72, 153; mole, 156 
Trapunto, 21 

Treadmills, dog and horse, 80 
A Tree Smells Like Peanut Butter (book¬ 
let), 111 
Treenware, 40 
Trembity (Ukrainian), 159 
Trenton, 13, 76, 104, 106, 110, 111, 112, 
120 

Trigger guard, flintlock, 160 
Trousseaux, 3, 68 

Trypillyan pottery (Ukrainian), repro¬ 
ductions of, 159 
Tuckerton, 119, 157 
Twitch, horse, 100 
Tyler Tract, 58 

U.S. Department of Agriculture yearbooks, 
86 

Ukrainian-Americans: An Ethnic Portrait 

(booklet), 106 

"Ukrainian-Americans: An Ethnic Portrait" 
(exhibit), 106, 112 

Ukrainian-Amerian folklife, conference on, 
106 

Ukrainians, 159; exhibit, 112 

Under Sail: The Dredgeboats of Delaware 

Bay (book), 170 


Union County: Berkeley Heights, 63; Eliza¬ 
beth, 19, 148; Hillside, 62; Kenilworth, 
78; Roselle, 138 
Upper Freehold, 1 
Upper Saddle River, 161 
Urban Folklife Archive, 143 
Urn and willows, 144 

Utensils, 153; cooking, 3, 34, 72, 92, 169; 
food, 46, 54, 95, 100, 120, 164; kitchen, 
65, 128, 135, 165; Lenape, 4; open- 
hearth cooking, 28, 40, 47 

Vail, Stephen, diary of, 151 
Van Allen House, 162 
Van Duyne House, 169 
Van Fleet circus, 117 
Van Fleet, Frank, 117 
Van Riper-Hopper House, 169 
Van Veghten House, 147 
Van Wageman, Margaret, watercolor by, 13 
Vehicles, photographs of, 37 
Verbal arts, 139, 141 
Vestments, embroidered (Ukrainian), 159 
Victorian period: architecture, 30, 98; 

Christmas, 134; churches, 84; fur¬ 
nishings, 1, 54, 124 

The Victorian Seaside Cookbook (book), 107 
Victoriana, 113, 118, 119, 134 
Videotape interviews, 90; with Indians, 112 
Vineland, 56, 165 

Violins, 28; made of lobster claw, 6 

WPA: Ethnic Survey for New Jersey, 104; 

Indian site survey, 112 
Wagon house, 70 

Wagons, 36, 76; farm, 52; milk, 52 
Walker-Gordon diary farm, photographs of, 
129 

Wall painting, 49; by Italian immigrants, 
133 

Walnford grist mill, 86 
Wampum, drilling machine, 124 
Ware, Maskel (chairmaker), 112 
Ware chairs, 18, 37, 119 
Ware family, artifacts from the, 37 
Warne and Letts pottery, 112 
Warne (Thomas) Historical Museum and 
Library, 156 

Warner, George (photographer), glass slides 
by, 138 

Warren County, Belvidere, 167 
Wash-house, 135 

Washington, George, 48; sculpture of, 76; 
and Martha on quilt, 13 









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Washington Township, 67, 168 
Washington’s (George) headquarters, 40, 
100, 135, 166 

’’Washington’s Triumphant Entrance into 
Trenton" (painting), 120 
Watercraft. See Boats 
Watercolor, 144 

Waters, Susan (artist), paintings by, 18 
Waterwheel, overshot, 151 
Waugh, Samuel Bell (artist), 86 
Wayne, 40, 169 

Weather conditions, book about nineteenth- 
century, 18 

Weathervanes, 78, 167; dragonfly, 114; 
fish, 107; rooster, 16 

Weaving: craft shop, 10; demonstrations, 
38, 128, 156, 164; equipment, 100; im¬ 
plements, 31, 89; tools, 26 
West Creek, 42 

Westerman, Gretje Ackerman, portrait of, 
13 

Westervlet Barn, 13 

Whaling: harpoons, 6; thesis about, 119; 
tools, 28 

Wheelwright’s shop, 36, 44, 93 
Whirligig, 95 

Whistles, 122; Indian, 109 
Whitlock-Seabrook-Wilson Homestead, 153 
Whittling, 42; exhibits, 43 
The Wick Farm and Garden , 100 
Wick House, 100 

The Wick House Furnishing Plan , 100 
"Will Ely's Sales and Exchange Stable" (folk 
painting), 97 

William and Mary period bannister back 
chair, 40 

"William Penn’s Treaty with the Indians" 
(folk painting), 144 

Williams, Micah (folk painter), 21, 95, 107, 
112, 125, 144 
Willows and urn, 144 
Wills, 37, 76 

Wilson, Harriet (artist), 119 
Wilson, Reuben, 4 
Windsor chairs, 18, 52, 120, 148 
Winemaking equipment, 3 


Winnower, 151 
Winnowing machine, 100 
Winter celebration, 151 
Wistarburg, 112 

Wolfkiel, George (potter), 13; pie dishes by, 
13; slipware by, 16 
Women mill workers, 3 
Wood carving craft shop, 10 
Woodbury, 54 
Woodcuts, 126 

Woodruff, Enos (furniture maker), 21 
Woodruff House, 62 
Woodruff store, 62 
Woodworking demonstrations of, 39 
Wool wheels, 52, 72, 76, 120 
Work: in Paterson silk industry, photo¬ 
graphs of, 3; in quarry, photographs of, 
91; photographs of, 94, 95 
Work culture, 78 

Workers: interviews with, 137; picnics, 
photographs of, 3; quilts, 125 
Workshops: carving, Easter-egg decorating, 
and embroidery (Hungarian), 71; of 
Keansburg Steamboat Company, 79 
Wreaths, 21; hair, 99, 167 
Wright, Patience (artist), 120 
Wybijky (Ukrainian), 159 
Wyckoff, 164 


Yacht captain, log book of a, 18 
Yarn winders, 113, 120 
Yarnall (Maritime) Collection, 107 
Yelloware, 114 
Yereance Farmhouse, 89 
Yoke, oxen, 119 

"Young Girl in White Dress with Cherries" 
(folk painting), 144 


Zassler, R., 75 
Zellers, Carl F., 130 

Zimmerli Art Museum (Rutgers Univer¬ 
sity), 144 
Zinc mining, 50 

Zithers (musical instruments), 6, 21 









































































































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